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I think there might be some confusion here. All I suggested was the git flow model[1] AKA forking, making your own branch, changing things, and making a pull request on that branch and if it gets merged, you delete the branch and fast-forward master.

I don't see why they can't pull in updates from the original repo. Are they not adding it as a remote?

[1] http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

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"I don't see why they can't pull in updates from the original repo."

Because github doesn't provide a way to do that on the site. Git workflows that can be achieved entirely on github.com were that subject of the story, and my original comment.

Ah, I was a bit confused. GitHub's kind of in-between being a web-UI for git and simply a storage bin for git repos. If they wanted to add the functionality to pull (fetch and merge) they'd have to implement a lot more functionality to handle conflicts. Have you tried looking at the native GitHub clients? They might provide the functionality you're looking for.

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