# GitHub Help

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/github-help/109857>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 1, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/github-help/109857 "2017-12-01T00:41:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Joe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/github-help/109857/1 "2017-12-01T00:41:22Z")

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Trying to get started helping out on Open source. Looks like my Git client is good but my fork is very old (Maven not Gradle Feb 2015) .

How do I get past this?

Relatively new to Git. Do I go to them for this kind of support?

Joe R.

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**Author:** ![TimV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timv/32/13162_2.png) [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 3:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/github-help/109857/2 "2017-12-01T03:13:38Z")

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There are a number of general resources for learning to use git and github, but you might like to start here: [https://services.github.com/on-demand/resources/](https://services.github.com/on-demand/resources/)

As for your specific issue, you could delete your fork and create a new one, but eventually you'll be in the same situation again.  
What you need to do is configure your local repository (on your personal computer) to have 2 _remotes_. One points to the central `elastic/elasticsearch` repository on github and the other points to your `joe/elasticsearch` repo (also on github).  
Then you can _pull_ changes from the main repo, and _push_ them to your fork.

You'll want to read up about `git remote` for that.

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**Author:** ![Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Joe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 4:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/github-help/109857/3 "2017-12-01T04:23:14Z")

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Thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2017, 4:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/github-help/109857/4 "2017-12-29T04:24:08Z")

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