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You are pulling the commits from another repository. The base repository is behind the forked repository and the forker is asking the base to incorporate (pull

You are pulling the commits from another repository. The base repository is behind the forked repository and the forker is asking the base to incorporate (pull) the changes (commits).

shmerl 9y ago
Why does it need to focus on who is doing it? I think merge is generic enough term that can describe both actors (i.e. if you for example have a right to write into upstream, you can merge it yourself, without asking the primary owner.
- aisofteng 9y ago
  Because otherwise it wouldn't work.