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@MT: Where do you enter these commands, though? The gist of the question, as I understand it, is how to resynchronize your personal GitHub fork with the main project, and do this all from GitHub. In other words, how can you update your remote fork without a local repository?
– John Y
Commented May 16, 2016 at 15:33
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@JohnY Using GitHub will always create an extra commit. You need to do all this in a shell on a local repo to avoid that extra commit.
– Jonathan Cross
Commented Oct 14, 2016 at 21:51

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