How to Fork Your Own Project on Github (updated to 1 october 2020)

fork-own-repo.md

How to Fork Your Own Project on Github

Steps on how to create fork-repo from your own original-repo

On Github.com

1. Create a new empty fork-repo repository on Github

On local

2. Clone fork-repo

git clone git@github.com:<YOUR_USERNAME>/fork-repo.git

3. Add an upstream remote pointing to original-repo

cd fork-repo
git remote add upstream git@github.com:<YOUR_USERNAME>/original-repo.git

4. Pull from original-repo

git pull upstream main

5. Push to fork-repo

git push origin main

Sync fork-repo

cd fork-repo
git fetch upstream
git merge upstream/main
git push origin main