Fork A GitHub Repo You Own

fork-own.sh

# the initial clone of the repo we want to "fork"
git clone https://github.com/original

# clone from folder we just got from github to a new location (which will be 
# created by this command)
git clone original my-fork

##
# [create new repo for my-fork on githubcom]
##

# remote for the new repo
git remote set-url origin https://github.com/my-fork.git

# OPTIONAL. by setting this we can fetch and merge with the repo we "forked" from 
git remote add upstream https://github.com/my-fork.git

# perform initial commit to new repo
git push -u origin master