How to pull in upstream changes into a fork using Mercurial?

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Published on 2010-04-21T00:31:48Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 0:33 UTC
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I've forked a Mercurial repository, and now I want to pull the changes from the main repository into my fork. If this were git, I would do something like...

git remote add upstream <url>
git pull upstream master

How do I do this sort of thing in Mercurial?

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