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I forgot to make a fork on GitHub before starting my work

Suppose I cloned a Project C repo from Project X from github to my local machine. I create a branch for myself locally, do some work on it and do a local location.

Now I want to make a pull request for company C, but I understand that I had to make a fork on gitub in order to create my own repo of project X and clone it, not relay the company C.

How can I recover from this without cloning my plug locally and starting with manual copying? I would like to use git magic to save myself.

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If you want to follow the development of the project that you cloned, by agreement, we add the upstream remote control in addition to your origin control. Therefore you need to:

  • Run a project on github
  • Rename the current origin remote (which tracks the upstream project) with the new name upstream : git remote rename origin upstream
  • Add your github forked personal project as a remote origin : git remote add origin <URL of your personal github fork>

The idea is to follow the origin naming conventions for your personal repository and upstream for the project repository ...

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You just need to add your fork as a remote to an existing clone:

 git remote add <any name> <URL of fork>

You may also want to git remote rm source repo.

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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/983501/

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