amsharifian · June 5, 2019 21:43 · Nov 22, 2010
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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