How to pull latest GitHub changes into Google AI Studio Build? It keeps showing the old version

Google AI Studio
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Hey! I have a multi-tool workflow issue with Google AI Studio Build and I can’t find a solution.

My workflow:

  1. Build something in AI Studio Build → Push to GitHub
  2. Switch to another tool (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code) → Make changes → Push to GitHub
  3. Go back to AI Studio Build… and it still shows the OLD version.

It seems like AI Studio Build stores the project state in its own cloud and does NOT automatically pull from GitHub when you reopen the project. So changes pushed from outside AI Studio are completely ignored.

Has anyone found a workaround to force AI Studio Build to sync with the latest GitHub state? Is there a manual “pull” option I’m missing, or is this just a current limitation of the platform?

Thanks!

2

Same issue. Got a lot of my files deleted.
And stuck with a stale version that is not updated.

I have tried the “versions tool” and reverted but that did not change anything

3

Yeah they should really fix this. I really wanted to continue developing in AI Studio but I made some major changes in Antigravity which I very much liked.

4

I am having the same issue, hopefully the AI Studio team are looking into this and soon providing a fix

5

Yeah, the Git Hub traffic from AI Studio is One-Way. The way I work: AI Studio is the source of truth. Everything starts there. I do not edit the code locally at all. But that is just how I decided to work.

I suggest using the upload zip file option in the code tab. This will upload your entire project and only replace the files that have changed. You might want to let the code assistant know what’s happening, so it doesn’t get confused, as that seems to be the missing piece to your conundrum.

6

I wish you could pull from a GitHub repo into ai studio

7

I started with AI Studio then I created a GitHub account, set it up outside of AI Studio then caught hell to link to an existing repository, AI kept telling me it was an existing repository (I knew this already). I finally got it connected and all was fine but I had to Restore to a checkpoint and blew it all away. My GitHub Repository is my source of truth and I can’t Pull anymore.

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The fix:**
Go back to the Build page and click on the + button in the Build chat box and select Import from GitHub Repository. It’s bulletproof. One thing though, AI Studio modifies some files to maintain compatibility. It works for a Pull.