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Dawid

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Simple work with Git Fork

"A fork is a copy of a repository that you manage. Forks let you make changes to a project without affecting the original repository."

Link for github docs

On the start

We have 2 repos

  • original github/OWNER/original
  • forked github/YOU/forked

In forked repo we can check our settings

$ git remote -v
> origin  https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/YOUR_FORK.git (fetch)
> origin  https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/YOUR_FORK.git (push)
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On the next we need to add original repo as upstream

git remote add upstream https://github.com/ORIGINAL_OWNER/ORIGINAL_REPOSITORY.git
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Now we should see

$ git remote -v
> origin    https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/YOUR_FORK.git (fetch)
> origin    https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/YOUR_FORK.git (push)
> upstream  https://github.com/ORIGINAL_OWNER/ORIGINAL_REPOSITORY.git (fetch)
> upstream  https://github.com/ORIGINAL_OWNER/ORIGINAL_REPOSITORY.git (push)
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Get changes from original to forked

git fetch upstream
git checkout main
git merge upstream/main
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Creating Pull Request from forked to original

# FORKED repo

# make changes

git add .
git commit -m "message"
git push
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Then go to forked repo on github and create Pull Request.

PR on github

Workflow

To keep workflow clean:

✅ original → forked

⛔ forked → original (do it only when you are sure what are you doing!)

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Justin

Just shared this with my class. Really great and easy to follow breakdown :)