在git fork中添加远程仓库

Question

My Git knowledge wasn't very good but I hoped to get some insights on this step-by-step guide that my senior told me as I am running into some problem

Based on my understanding, I am a bit confused where there is a need to add in the remote repo since the items within and the repo I forked are basically the same.

It is as follows:

• Fork a repo using the branch test_for_validation within the project called SITE
• Clone the repo locally
• Cd to local repo
• git remote add site ssh://git@....git
• git pull site
• git checkout site/feature/test_for_validation
• git checkout develop
• git merge feature/test_for_validation

While I am at git pull site step, I am seeing a list of * [new branch] xxx followed with a message:

You asked to pull from the remote 'site', but did not specify
a branch. Because this is not the default configured remote
for your current branch, you must specify a branch on the command line.

Am I supposed to do something here?

Additionally, when I did the git clone into my machine, am I suppose to create all the branches, seeing that at the last step it is asking me to merge since currently I only have the master branch...

Lastly can I check if it is necessary for me to create a repository called test_for_validation as I am not seeing this repo of mine in the projects..

I am using Atlassian by the way

Answer 1

Based on my understanding, I am a bit confused where there is a need to add in the remote repo since the items within and the repo I forked are basically the same.

You would add an 'upstream' remote in order to:

• fetch updates from that original repo
• rebase your own work (generally, a dedicated branch where you make your own contribution, in order to prepare a pull request)

So in your guide: don't pull, just fetch.