junagao

Git: 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.

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

junagao

Git: Keeping a fork up to date

1. Clone your fork:

git clone git@github.com:YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-FORKED-REPO.git
cd into/cloned/fork-repo

2. Add remote from original repository in your forked repository:

git remote add upstream git://github.com/ORIGINAL-DEV-USERNAME/REPO-YOU-FORKED-FROM.git