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Anurag-Sharma
Anurag-Sharma

Reputation: 4418

Forking the upstream into a new branch

I have a forked repo origin with some changes and the upstream repo has some new changes. I don't want to merge my commits at this moment, but instead I wanted to create a new branch which has the same HEAD as that of upstream. Like forking the upstream into a new branch.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 26

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1329092

You can fetch upstream and declare a branch from (for instance) upstream/master:

git fetch upstream
git checkout -b mybranch upstream/master

Or, if you don't want to switch to the new branch:

git branch --set-upstream mybranch upstream/master

Don't forget that a good practice is to rebase your changes on top of upstream/master, in order to make any future pull request easy to integrate (fast-forward merge)

Upvotes: 1

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