+ [6 years ago] jlk by more than one people, so there are permissions involved
+ [6 years ago] syntaxfree I forked a repository which has since been updated. I want to merge back the original repos' changes into mine. I know how to do this with git, but is it possible to do it on the github website?
+ [6 years ago] R2robot even the github docs describing this points to using git itself

message no. 174493

Posted by syntaxfree in #github at 2019-09-12T20:31:05Z

I forked a repository which has since been updated. I want to merge back the original repos' changes into mine. I know how to do this with git, but is it possible to do it on the github website?
+ [6 years ago] gidna Is there a way to input password and username as a command when executing "git push" ?
+ [6 years ago] ThiefMaster gidna: use ssh keys. username/password are a terrible choice anyway for git
+ [6 years ago] gidna ok I resolved with this git config --global credential.helper cache
+ [6 years ago] littlepython what would be my github organization id