3 Ways to Sync a Forked Repository on GitHub AUTOMATICALLY | Automate GitHub

Learn how to keep your GitHub forked repo up-to-date. In this video I'm showing you 3 ways on how to automatically update a forked repository in GitHub.
These methods will allow you to automate GitHub to sync a forked repo with the upstream one, also thanks to the power of GitHub Actions!
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[@user-hq8xb5ww5e]

where do I need to create the github tokens like on the main original repo or on the fork repo

[@CoderDave]

Tokens are not relative to repos, they belong to users.

[@asm-0011]

Hi. I was trying to fork a private repository through the third way using github actions and its always failed. It seems to be working fine with public repository. Can you please help me with this ?

[@CoderDave]

Hey. To me that sounds like the PAT you are using doesn't have enough privileges for accessing that private repo

[@Tavdog]

What about git fetch upstream ; git merge upstream/master

[@nicolasmoura59]

To use the Github Action, the token should have which permissions?

[@CoderDave]

Just the repo permissions (sorry for the late reply)