Syncing forks

After I have cloned my repositories and there are some forks I would like to syncing them with upstream. As I see after the cloning the remote is not set (checking with git remote -v). Is it my task to add remote repository with git remote add [upstream] [git-url] in my forks, or can it be automated with all-repos?

My usual workflow is (maybe not the best): 1, clone my fork 2, add upstream repository as a remote 3, sync with upstream (git fetch --all, git merge upstream/master, git push origin master) 4, create my topic branch + add code + create a PR from it

If the step 4 does not take a short time I would like to sync/rebase my topic branch with the master periodically. I have seen the push-module maybe it could help me in creating a PR, but will it help in syncing?

So my questions: 1, can all-repos-clone automatically add repository from which I forked from as a remote? or is it a users task? 2, can all-repos help me to sync master (or other branches) from time to time with upstream?

Thank you

[mitzkia]

I think I have no other questions right now to this topic -> so I am closing this.

[johndpope]

so from this gist https://gist.github.com/CristinaSolana/1885435

these are the commands to sync a remote fork back to local fork - I will get around to making this a full script one day…

git clone https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas (REPO_URL)
cd pandas
git remote add upstream https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas.git ( parent.git_url)
git fetch upstream
git checkout master
git pull upstream master
git add -A
git commit -m "Sync upstream master with master branch"
git push origin master

DRAFT https://gist.github.com/johndpope/c859925603e8f176318c1d28a1dca6fc