[2020-03-02]: [How to sync fastai/fastpages with forked FastPages]

[byteshiva]

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I have forked a fastpages and build a blog. Now that I see some fixes committed on fastpages which I want to sync on my forked fastpages. I followed https://nearsoft.com/blog/how-to-synchronize-your-github-fork/,, but It throw me

git merge upstream/master 
fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories

How do I resolve the unrelated histories on git.

[hamelsmu]

Please try this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56577184/github-pull-changes-from-a-template-repository/56577320

Note that we are working on an automated system pending review #143 but please try the stack overflow approach in the meantime.

Closing this issue. If still encountering a problem please open a thread on the fastai forums under the nbdev & blogging topic: https://forums.fast.ai/

[byteshiva]

Thanks @hamelsmu

I'm adding the steps for future reference.
Step 1

$ git remote add template git@github.com:fastai/fastpages.git 
$ git remote -v 
origin	git@github.com:byteshiva/blog.git (fetch)
origin	git@github.com:byteshiva/blog.git (push)
template	git@github.com:fastai/fastpages.git (fetch)
template	git@github.com:fastai/fastpages.git (push)
upstream	git@github.com:fastai/fastpages.git (fetch)
upstream	git@github.com:fastai/fastpages.git (push)

Step 2:

$ git fetch --all 
Fetching origin
remote: Enumerating objects: 43, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (43/43), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done.
remote: Total 26 (delta 9), reused 24 (delta 7), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (26/26), done.
From github.com:byteshiva/blog
   d7e8201..b67202a  gh-pages   -> origin/gh-pages
Fetching upstream
remote: Enumerating objects: 86, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (86/86), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (54/54), done.
remote: Total 86 (delta 38), reused 64 (delta 27), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (86/86), done.
From github.com:fastai/fastpages
   e8bf9f8..bcdbc22  gh-pages   -> upstream/gh-pages
   5b4b79e..8f5a7bc  master     -> upstream/master
Fetching template
From github.com:fastai/fastpages
 * [new branch]      change-docker      -> template/change-docker
 * [new branch]      gh-pages           -> template/gh-pages
 * [new branch]      master             -> template/master
 * [new branch]      pin-jekyll-version -> template/pin-jekyll-version
 * [new branch]      search-highlight   -> template/search-highlight

Step 3:

$ git merge template/master 
fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories

**fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories << to allow unrelated histories go to Step 4:

Step 4:

$ git merge template/master --allow-unrelated-histories
CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in index.md
Auto-merging index.md
CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in assets/main.scss
Auto-merging assets/main.scss
CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in assets/js/search.js
Auto-merging assets/js/search.js
CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in _posts/2020-01-14-test-markdown-post.md
Auto-merging _posts/2020-01-14-test-markdown-post.md
CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in _notebooks/2020-02-20-test.ipynb
Auto-merging _notebooks/2020-02-20-test.ipynb
CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in _includes/youtube.html
Auto-merging _includes/youtube.html
CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in _includes/twitter.html
Auto-merging _includes/twitter.html
CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in _includes/notebook_github_link.html
Auto-merging _includes/notebook_github_link.html
CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in _includes/notebook_colab_link.html
Auto-merging _includes/notebook_colab_link.html
CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in _includes/favicons.html
Auto-merging _includes/favicons.html
CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in _config.yml
Auto-merging _config.yml
CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in _action_files/settings.ini
Auto-merging _action_files/settings.ini
CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in _action_files/nb2post.py
Auto-merging _action_files/nb2post.py
CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in _action_files/action_entrypoint.sh
Auto-merging _action_files/action_entrypoint.sh
CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in README.md
Auto-merging README.md
CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in Makefile
Auto-merging Makefile
CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in .github/workflows/setup.yaml
Auto-merging .github/workflows/setup.yaml
CONFLICT (add/add): Merge conflict in .github/workflows/ci.yaml
Auto-merging .github/workflows/ci.yaml
Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.

Step 5:
How to list conflicted files in git.
refer : List conflicted files in git

git diff --name-only --diff-filter=U
.github/workflows/ci.yaml
.github/workflows/setup.yaml
Makefile
README.md
_action_files/action_entrypoint.sh
_action_files/nb2post.py
_action_files/settings.ini
_config.yml
_includes/favicons.html
_includes/notebook_colab_link.html
_includes/notebook_github_link.html
_includes/twitter.html
_includes/youtube.html
_notebooks/2020-02-20-test.ipynb
_posts/2020-01-14-test-markdown-post.md
assets/js/search.js
assets/main.scss
index.md

Step 6:
Resolve conflicts using Microsoft Vscode or any of your preferred IDE.

Step 7:
After resolving all merge conflicts

git add . 
git commit -m " commit message comes here "

[hamelsmu]

Great writeup! Mind if I repost this on the forums for the benefit of others?

Thank you for taking the time to write it down 😃

[byteshiva]

Great writeup! Mind if I repost this on the forums for the benefit of others?

Thank you for taking the time to write it down

Sure