@louisemcmahon something like this can work okay:
Have two git remotes: origin and fork
git remote rm origin
git remote add origin https://github.com/nodebb/nodebb.git
git remote add fork https://example.com/your/repo.git
Then you can used these named remotes for updating / pushing like so:
# pull and merge latest changes from NodeBB
git pull origin
# push latest changes to your repo
git push fork
That will make updating things easier.
