I saw that page - it looks like it shows how to pull using a shell
command, which you can do while working locally on your own machine.
I'm wondering if you can do a pull directly into  a repo hosted on
github, without leaving the site?

On Sep 20, 5:55 pm, Tekkub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Charlie,
> Pull requests are nothing more than a note that says "hey, pull my stuff
> into your repo".  You need to use git-pull to grab the changes you're after.
>  You may want to read this 
> guide:http://github.com/guides/fork-a-project-and-submit-your-modifications
>
> --tek
>
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to get up to speed on github, and I've forked a few
> > codebases I'm interested in. I did that a few weeks ago, and now I've
> > come back and I see that a repo I forked has had a number of commits
> > since I forked from it.
>
> > I want to bring my repo back up to date with the one I forked from. If
> > that developer had sent me a pull request, I could do this by simply
> > accepting the request, right? But how do I do this otherwise? I've
> > been hunting for a "pull" button and I can't find that anywhere. This
> > seems like it should be a simple, frequently used feature. Am I
> > missing something right under my nose? How do I pull from an upstream
> > repo from within Github?
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