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How to Fork Your Own Project on Github (updated to 1 october 2020)

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How to Fork Your Own Project on Github

Steps on how to create fork-repo from your own original-repo

On Github.com

Create a new empty fork-repo repository on Github

On local

Clone fork-repo

git clone [email protected]:<YOUR_USERNAME>/fork-repo.git

Add an upstream remote pointing to original-repo

cd fork-repo
git remote add upstream [email protected]:<YOUR_USERNAME>/original-repo.git

Pull from original-repo

git pull upstream main

Push to fork-repo

git push origin main

Sync `fork-repo`

cd fork-repo
git fetch upstream
git merge upstream/main
git push origin main

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