Can I update a forked project, on git, to the original/master copy?

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Yeah you can pull the changes from the original repo into your fork. Add a remote to it ( since origin will be your fork ) and pull.

This from GitHub help:

First up, add a remote to the original repo.

Help here: http://help.github.com/remotes/

Then you can pull in updates to the original repo. Quote from http://help.github.com/fork-a-repo/

Pull in upstream changes

If the original repo you forked your project from gets updated, you
can add those updates to your fork by running the following code:

$ git fetch upstream

$ git merge upstream/master

All these are for doing from command line.

Below are instructions for TortoiseGit:

Right click over your project -> TortoiseGit -> Settings -> Remote.

Add the remote details here:

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Now, right-click -> TortoiseGit -> Pull.

You will be presented with a dialog to choose the remote ( you should be able to see the remote you added in previous step). Choose it and pull.

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