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Bradley Thomas
Bradley Thomas

Reputation: 4097

How to transfer a repository on Github thats been forked with changes

I have made some new commits in a fork. There are no branches (only master). The original account owner wants to transfer control to the whole code base to us, his original code plus the changes I have made since in the fork. What's the best way to do this and preserve history etc. Thanks

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3263

Answers (1)

Johnny Z
Johnny Z

Reputation: 15449

NOTHING.

Since git is a distributed vcs this is actually pretty easy. You already have the history included in your fork. If there are not changes in the original after your fork then you are done.

If there are changes in the original after your fork, merge them in using normal git workflow and keep your copy.

EDIT:

Good explanation of distributed vcs: http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/why-you-should-switch-from-subversion-to-git

EDIT:

Github allows owners of private repositories to control their forks. So I see two options:

1) look at this: https://help.github.com/articles/how-to-transfer-a-repository. The caveat is that you can only transfer the root repo, so you have to get your changes into that.

2) git clone the repo onto your local computer. Then follow GitHub's instructions on how to create a new repository. You can clone your fork and not worry about extra merging. https://help.github.com/articles/create-a-repo

Personally I like option 2 if you don't care about any of the GitHub artifacts such as pull requests...

Upvotes: 2

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