How to have ERPNext updates/patch fixes along with my Custom App?

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A comprehensive answer:

Guidance to work with Forks on Github for ERPNext only

This is a complicated topic. I will try to summarize the 4 different approaches, beginning with the least-complex scenario. 1. Making changes with the “Customize” button. To make simple modifications (changing a DocField’s label, adding a new Naming Series, adding a DocField to an existing DocType), you may decide to use the Customize button. When using this button, your changes are saved –in the SQL database– of your Site. The ERPNext code itself is not touched. So no git logs. (Except…