title: Why does my github repository fork not shows the changes I made that were accepted?
body: <p>Trying to get to grips with Git(Hub)</p>
  
  <p>So I forked this project on github <a href="https://github.com/philipmat/discogs-xml2db" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/philipmat/discogs-xml2db</a>
  to give <a href="https://github.com/ijabz/discogs-xml2db" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ijabz/discogs-xml2db</a></p>
  
  <p>I create a local repositoy from this, and created a branch I made some changes and pushed to my remote repository. I then created a pull request to get these changes into the philipmat repository. </p>
  
  <p>The pull request was merged as 
  <a href="https://github.com/philipmat/discogs-xml2db/pull/22" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/philipmat/discogs-xml2db/pull/22</a>
  and it advised me that I could now delete the branch I created.</p>
  
  <p>So far so good, but when I look <a href="https://github.com/ijabz/discogs-xml2db" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ijabz/discogs-xml2db</a> i cant see my changes, even though it says </p>
  
  <p><em>This branch is 0 commits ahead and 0 commits behind master</em></p>
  
  <p>So what is the missing step I haven't done ?</p>
  
  <p><strong>* Solution *</strong></p>
  
  <p>Using the answers below I did the following (starting again) which I document in detail (more for my own reference then anyone else):</p>
  
  <pre><code>git clone https://github.com/ijabz/discogs-xml2db.git
  cd discogs-xml2db
  git remote add upstream https://github.com/philipmat/discogs-xml2db.git
  git pull upstream master
  git push
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In english this means </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>Create local version of my remote repository</p></li>
  <li><p>Go into this repository</p></li>
  <li><p>Create a reference to philipsmats (the project owners) remote repository</p></li>
  <li><p>Pull anything from the philipsmats master branch that isnt in my local repos (master branch)</p></li>
  <li><p>Push anything in my local master branch to my remote master branch (if not there) </p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>So to summarise to get changes from one remote repository to another remote repository I have gone via my local repository (im surpised not possible to go direct from one remote repos to another via github) </p>