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 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

Thanks man. Used to SVN but new to git.

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 simple git 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!

⚠️ Easier solution alert ⚠️

• 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!

https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_repo_fork

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@alex-che and @digitalfinesse. thank you guys, I sort it out!

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nice one @TomasHubelbauer !

Excellent, very straight forward. Thank you