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While you were working on your fork, another Bitbucket user might have made updates to the original repository. At this point, you can check that and decide if you need to adjust your fork accordingly. Do the following to compare your changes with the repository:

  1. Log into Bitbucket and navigate to your myquotefork repository. Forked repositories have a special widget that lets you compare your fork work to the original or to create a pull request.
  2. Click the Compare link on the left side of the page. The Compare section has a specialized view that is available only in forked repositories.
  3. Press the Compare button to compare your forked repository to the original repository.
  4. Click the Diff tab to compare changes from your fork to the original. If there are multiple commits, you see their cumulative changes by file in this section. Click the Side-by-side diff button to see changes displayed side-by-side. Or press the View file button to view the full file in Bitbucket.
  5. Switch back to the Compare tab to see the list of commits pushed from your local repository to the fork in Bitbucket. To see the contents of a specific commit in isolation, select a Commit link and the system takes you to the Commits page. 

You can merge your fork into another repository — for example a local copy you may have of the original repository. If you merge locally, you can test your changes before making a pull request through Bitbucket.

Last modified on Jun 17, 2020

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