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Posted on Apr 20, 2019 • Originally published at slightedgecoder.com on Oct 1, 2017

Push git cloned repository to your own on GitHub

#git #github

** UPDATE: April 21, 2019 **

Both Eugene Karataev & Noah Pederson provided a better way than what's in this post.

Check'em out below.

Eugene Karataev • Apr 21 '19

It's not necessary to remove old origin and create a new one. You can just change the existing origin url:
git remote set-url origin NEW_URL

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You git cloned a repository from GitHub without forking it.

The problem is that you made a bunch of changes and want to publish it to a new GitHub repository.

What are the steps required to accomplish it?

TL;DR

Remove original remote and add your own

Scenario

Suppose that you are taking an advantage of all javascript boilerplates floating around on GitHub since setting up Webpack and environment required manually for simple code is a bit too much.

Problem

But when you try to commit the code back to GitHub, you get an error message that you don’t have a permission since the cloned repo belongs to another user.

How to commit to your own GitHub repository

First, remove the remote repository associated using git remote rm origin.

Then create your own repository on GitHub.

After creating the repository, copy the repo URL.

Now, add the URL to your repo.

Now you can push/publish it to your own repository!

Wolla! It’s committed to your GitHub repository.

Alternative

You can simply download a zip version of the repository, git init, then add the remote yourself if you are uncomfortable with git clone.

Resources

Help me improve this~

Git command is very flexible that there might be other ways to do it much easier. Please let me know if there is a way to do it without going through all these troubles 🙂.

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Top comments (12)

Eugene Karataev • Apr 21 '19

It's not necessary to remove old origin and create a new one. You can just change the existing origin url:
git remote set-url origin NEW_URL

Sung M. Kim • Apr 21 '19

👆
Wow 😲, Eugene. Thanks for the set-url option.

To borrow from SQL, my posts is using "DELETE" then "INSERT"

while your command does an "UPDATE".

Much simpler.

Mohammed Zeeshan • Apr 12 '20

So does this preserve editing history?

Sung M. Kim • Apr 21 '19

That is a better option than what the post showed 👍

I've only learned of it recently when someone forked my repo and renamed it to create a useful library out of it.

edewit / react-use-sessionstorage

⚓ React hook for using local storage

react-use-sessionstorage

Fork of github.com/dance2die/react-use-loc... but then uses session storage instead of local storage.

How to use it

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import useLocalStorage from 'react-use-sessionstorage';
import './styles.css';

function App() {
  const [item, setItem] = useSessionStorage('name', 'Initial Value');

  return (
    <div className="App">
      <h1>Set Name to store in Local Storage</h1>
      <div>
        <label>
          Name:{' '}
          <input
            type="text"
            placeholder="Enter your name"
            value={item}
            onChange={e => setItem(e.target.value)}
          />
        </label>
      </div>
    </div>
  );
}

const rootElement = document.getElementById('root');
ReactDOM.render(<App

…

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Glenn Dixon • Apr 20 '20

I tried the 'set-url' and it did not work. Following the remove instructions did, thanks!

Sung M. Kim • Apr 20 '20

Weird that set-url didn't work.

Any errors thrown?

GitHub documentation still shows it as a valid option.

help.github.com/en/github/using-gi...

Saia Fonua • Apr 1 '20

Thank you good sir!

Sung M. Kim • Apr 1 '20

You're welcome~

Laiba Zahoor • Aug 21 '21

You literally make my day, I was unable to solve this issue for 2 days but now it works,,,,

Fahad Zakir • Apr 15 '20

Awesome, got all three ways of doing this, best part was posting the suggested ways on top as well.

Thanks from a newb.

Oliver Fu • Nov 8 '20

Thanks. I was wondering about boilerplates and whether I needed to publish my own npm package. I hope this works if the original repository is also your own.

Md Kawsar Islam Yeasin • Dec 23 '21

Is this necessary to remove origin and I have to create repo again. Is there any way so can push my change into my repo that i clone?

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