How does one update the fastpages software while it is used in one's blog?

I currently use a Jekyll theme- Beautiful Jekyll for my personal blog.

When making this blog, I forked the Beautiful Jekyll repo, and changed and added things to make it to what it is today.

The problem with this software is that, once the upstream repo starts getting updated, the copy of the theme that you have begins to get outdated. There is no simple way to update it. It was suggested in the site FAQ, that, in order to update the software, one must delete the repo manually, keep the post and config files at hand. And then fork the upstream repo again, and then manually add the posts and the config files.

Does fastpages solve this?

Can I host my blog post using fastpages, and keep the fastpages software updated while making no changes to my blog, and can it be done simply?

If it can be done, I will seriously consider moving to fastpages for my personal blog.

Thanks.

That sound a lot like what rebase does for you…

You’ll see a lot of warnings around using rebase and force-push, but thats mostly in the context of public projects that many people clone and fork. For a personal blog it should be fine:

You should equally be able to merge rather than rebase

…but it helps knowing how to interact with upstream:

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