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How to move to a fork after cloning
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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!
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 [email protected]
4. Fetch & push
git fetch origin
git push origin
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 [email protected]
git fetch my-fork
git push my-fork
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