GitHub makes forking cheap, and I have a
fork of the
bioclipse.qsar repository (see
Bioclipse moving to GitHub: CIA hooks enabled), so that I can easily share my patches with Ola for review. Ola can review them and apply them back into his main version.
I was wondering how I could bring my fork synchronized with Ola's version again, and found the answer in
this guide on GitHub. It turns out all I have to do is, though this is locally:
$ git remote add olas git://github.com/olas/bioclipse.qsar.git
$ git pull olas master
This gets me into the following state:

This
gitk output show that my local
master branch is identical to Ola's
master branch on GitHub, while both are three commits ahead of my current
master branch at GitHub.
Right after this, I updated my fork at GitHub with a simple
git push, resulting in this gitk output: