Thursday, October 23, 2014

Retro Forking with Git and GitHub

Problem: You cloned a repository that you don't have write access to and you've done some work on it. Now you want to commit that work and push it to GitHub but you never did a fork.

1. Fork the repository, for my example I'm using https://github.com/rjrodger/seneca-mvp

2. In the console in the local repository folder do "git remote -v" to find out what the remote address is:

$ git remote -v
origin    [email protected]:rjrodger/seneca-mvp.git (fetch)
origin    [email protected]:rjrodger/seneca-mvp.git (push)

3. Add this repository as the upstream repository with "git remote add":

git remote add upstream https://github.com/rjrodger/seneca-mvp

4. "git remote -v" should now show:

$ git remote -v
origin    [email protected]:rjrodger/seneca-mvp.git (fetch)
origin    [email protected]:rjrodger/seneca-mvp.git (push)
upstream    https://github.com/rjrodger/seneca-mvp (fetch)
upstream    https://github.com/rjrodger/seneca-mvp (push)


5. Change the origin to your fork:

git remote set-url origin [email protected]:guyellis/seneca-mvp.git

6. Confirm the change:

$ git remote -v
origin    [email protected]:guyellis/seneca-mvp.git (fetch)
origin    [email protected]:guyellis/seneca-mvp.git (push)
upstream    https://github.com/rjrodger/seneca-mvp (fetch)
upstream    https://github.com/rjrodger/seneca-mvp (push)

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