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How to move to a fork after cloning
So you've cloned somebody's repo from github, but now you want to fork it and contribute back. Never fear!
Technically, when you fork "origin" should be your fork and "upstream" should be the project you forked; however, if you're willing to break this convention then it's easy.
* Off the top of my head *
1. Fork their repo on Github
2. In your local, add a new remote to your fork; then fetch it, and push your changes up to it
git remote add my-fork git@github...my-fork.git
git fetch my-fork
git push my-fork
Otherwise, if you want to follow convention:
1. Fork their repo on Github
2. In your local, rename your origin remote to upstream
git remote rename origin upstream
3. Add a new origin
git remote add origin git@github...my-fork
4. Fetch & push
git fetch origin
git push origin
@clmcavaney
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Thanks 👍

@lesywix
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lesywix commented Aug 8, 2021

Thanks!

@ripudaman17
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Thanks a lot

@Bug-Reaper
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Still good, thanks 👍

@flipphillips
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You know what's hilarious? I literally searched for the opening sentence in this gist.

More people should open their help with "So you want to ... X" :)

@Jaspreet9795
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Thank you ! Couldn't find this straight answer anywhere else.

@jeremiahgivens
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Wonderfully straight forward and helpful!

@TomasHubelbauer
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TomasHubelbauer commented Jan 20, 2023

⚠️ Easier solution alert ⚠️

  • Download and install https://cli.github.com
  • Run gh repo fork in the repository you cloned that isn't yours
  • Allow the tool to update origin
  • Make your changes and push
  • Select origin as your desired upstream, upstream is a new origin pointing to the original fork's repo!

https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_repo_fork

@bhargavkakadiya
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thanks James

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Grajales-K commented Mar 27, 2023

@alex-che and @digitalfinesse. thank you guys, I sort it out!

@craigmcchesney
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gracias!

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manye31 commented Jul 24, 2023

Thanks!

@Amir-UL-Islam
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Thanks!

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Thanks

@varsubham
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Thanks!

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nezda commented Dec 27, 2023

nice one @TomasHubelbauer !

@rickp2006
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Excellent, very straight forward. Thank you

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