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September 21, 2025 01:05
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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! | |
| 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] |