Complete Git Guide: Understand and Master Git and GitHub - Synchronizing Changes from Upstream

This video tutorial covers the management of Git repositories, focusing on the structure of Git refs and branches, and the process of syncing changes between local and remote repositories. It explains how to handle updates in forked repositories and the steps involved in pulling and pushing changes. The tutorial also delves into merge operations, including fast forward and 3-way merges, and how to resolve conflicts that may arise during these processes.

What is a forked repository and how does it differ from the parent repository?

Explain the concept of Fast forward merge in Git.

What does it mean for a local branch to track a remote branch?

What steps should be taken to synchronize changes from a parent repository to a forked repository?