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description: "Sync a branch with its remote or its fork's parent"
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# gt repo sync

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Sync a branch with its remote or its fork's parent

## Synopsis

```text
Fast-forward a local branch (default: the repository's default branch) to the same branch on
the repository's Git remote, without switching branches. Diverged branches are left unchanged.

Given a repository without a Git remote here, sync updates it on the server instead: a fork
fast-forwards to its parent, and a pull mirror fetches its source. Gitea updates a mirror as a
whole and in the background, so --branch is refused for a mirror, and the JSON result names
only the source, as remote.
```

```
gt repo sync [<repository>] [flags]
```

## Examples

```
# Fast-forward the default branch from the repository's remote
$ gt repo sync

# Fast-forward another branch
$ gt repo sync --branch release/1.0

# Update a fork on the server from its parent
$ gt repo sync bob/project
```

## Options

```
  -b, --branch string   Branch to sync (default: the repository's default branch)
  -h, --help            help for sync
```

## Options inherited from parent commands

```
      --cwd directory       Working directory for repository discovery
      --debug               Log the method, URL, status, and duration of each HTTP request to stderr
      --host URL            Gitea instance URL, including any base path
      --interactive         Allow prompts with machine output
  -q, --jq expression       Filter JSON output using a jq expression; implies --json
      --json fields[="*"]   Output JSON with the specified comma-separated fields, or all fields
      --no-input            Disable prompts and implicit editor/browser interactions
      --remote remote       Git remote used for repository discovery
  -R, --repo OWNER/REPO     Select a repository as OWNER/REPO or URL
      --sudo user           Perform API requests as this user (requires an administrator account)
      --user name           Account name on the selected instance
  -y, --yes                 Accept confirmations without prompting
```

## SEE ALSO

* [gt repo](../repo/index.md): Work with Gitea repositories