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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 |
I followed your "convention" instructions and they worked!
However, to allow me to just perform
git push
to push updates to my fork, I had to perform the following command:
git push -u origin branchname
Without performing the
push -u
a simplegit push
tried to push to the upstream repo.
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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" :)
Thank you ! Couldn't find this straight answer anywhere else.
Wonderfully straight forward and helpful!
- 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!
thanks James
@alex-che and @digitalfinesse. thank you guys, I sort it out!
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nice one @TomasHubelbauer !
Excellent, very straight forward. Thank you
Thanks man. Used to SVN but new to git.