# Fast Forward Your Fork

DevFeed: [Fast Forward Your Fork](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/fast-forward-your-fork-71127.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://github.blog/news-insights/the-library/fast-forward-your-fork/>)

Author: Scott Chacon

Published: 2008-12-13T06:54:38Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [GitHub Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/github-engineering.md>)

Topics: [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>)

Tags: [fork](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fork.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [news-insights](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news-insights.md>), [the-library](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/the-library.md>)

## AI overview

GitHub added a repository button that fast-forwards an untouched fork's branches to match the source repository after it has moved ahead. This lets people who had not pushed changes bring their forks up to date without manually adding a remote and merging.

## Source excerpt

Since forking a repository is so easy on GitHub, a number of people tend to do it thinking they want to play with the source, but then never actually push...