Pull upstream/master into fork

[carmenbianca]

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Description

There is currently no way to pull changes made in upstream into your fork. As a timeline:

• Fork third-party/project into you/project.

• third-party/project:master receives new commits.

• You want to update you/project:master to also contain those commits.

Ideally there would be a very simple button somewhere to achieve this. GitHub and GitLab currently solve this by creating a pull request against yourself, but that is rather clunky and fault-prone (you have to manually make sure to fast-forward). In Gitea I haven't yet found a way to create a pull request against yourself from the upstream repository, but even so it'd be nice just to have a simple button to achieve this task without a pull request.

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[moeenio]

I'd really like to have this; Even if it's creating a pull request like on github/lab.

[gfwing]

I found similar feature in 1.12.0-rc1 when I try the 1.12.0-rc1 yesterday.

seems: #11327

[moeenio]

Also, I had tried to manually put forkuser:branch in the compare url, but that didn't work. :/ (on stable tho, or maybe i did smth wrong)

[zeripath]

@locness3 The compare page fork options have been substantially improved on 1.12 - so that problem should disappear very soon.

[6543]

It's posible