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Merge upstream repository with my fork #23694

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Hi @learnjavawithreshma, welcome to the GitHub Support Community!

Both of these help articles actually explain how to do mostly the same thing: merge an upstream branch into your own local copy. They just use slightly different commands to do so.

The “Syncing a fork” article is more for beginners, including adding the parent of your fork as a new remote and specifically targeting the master branch and giving you commands to use to sync that. The other article assumes you already have knowledge of these things and doesn’t explain as much, but it does do pretty much the same thing!

As for GitHub Desktop, I don’t have an article to share directly but Desktop should have some tools to help yo…

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