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maheeka
maheeka

Reputation: 2093

Changing forked repository

There is repository B which I forked from, original repository A. There are many commits I made on B. However, I am only supposed to send pull requests to repository A' which is also a forked repository of A.

Can I change my original forked repo? I noticed that since I have forked from A, I am not allowed to fork from A' (it redirects to B). I understand that sending a pull request to A is possible from github, but I want this to be visible on github as B is forked from A'. How do I do that without deleting current repo (B) and re-forking from A' and (maybe) manually redoing all commits ? Why am I not able to fork from A' while B is still there?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 140

Answers (2)

janos
janos

Reputation: 124646

GitHub doesn't expose a user interface to do this. You can contact GitHub support, explain to them the situation, and they can fix it for you manually. They are friendly and pretty fast (give it a day or 2), even if you don't have a paid subscription with them.

Upvotes: 1

nitishagar
nitishagar

Reputation: 9403

You change the target using:

git remote set-url upstream <git://repo_address>

Upvotes: 0

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