[PRs] How to update on Github

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On Thursday, 21 May 2015 at 13:30:49 UTC, Baz wrote:
> On Thursday, 21 May 2015 at 10:42:34 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
> wrote:
>> On 21/05/2015 10:39 p.m., ZombineDev wrote:
>>> Basically you need clone your fork to your computer, add a 
>>> "upstream"
>>> remote to github.com/D-Programming-Language/[repo name, eg. 
>>> phobos],
>>> pull from upstream the new changes and optionally update 
>>> github by
>>> pushing to origin (origin normally is github).
>>> It may sound complicated doing this from the command-line, 
>>> but after a
>>> few times you'll get used to it.
>>
>>
>> Or for Windows/OSX you can use SourceTree.
>> It is amaaaaaaaaaaaaazing!
>>
>> https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
>
> i'm a bit less enthusiast than you about this soft even if i 
> use to be:
>
> + easy commits: push/pull/commit
> + easy branches: switch/create/delete
> + easy remotes: manage different sources (e.g official & your 
> forks)
>
> - more complex things, squash, rebase, still have to use the 
> console.
> - big repositories are slow to open/refresh/switch branch
> - several times ST has completly ruined my local repositories.
> - it's a nightmare with any repos based on many sub 
> repositories.
> - it doesn't use *libgit*, but *git* executable itself, and it 
> doesn't seem to balance well multiple instances among the cores.
>
> Still the best git GUI but it has some obvious problems and 
> bugs.

replied b4 reading this..
so +1