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Reputation: 15628

why do i get "You already have a fork of this repository"?

First off, I'm new to github!

I've cloned a project from github and made quite a few changes & extensions to it. Now I want to push my changes but it says that I don't have the permissions. So I wanted to fork the project into my profile but I get "You already have a fork of this repository:" (which might be but I've deleted all my repos since, i.e. my profile now is empty:You don’t have any repositories yet.) How do I go about pushing my changes upstream?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1246

Answers (2)

stdcerr
stdcerr

Reputation: 15628

I ended up deleteing my github account (as it was new and empty) and recreating a new account with the same name. I was then able to fork just fine, commit the changes from my disk, and open a pull reqest accordingly.

Upvotes: 0

Gustavo Conde
Gustavo Conde

Reputation: 977

You can create a new remote repository in github and then link it with your local one.

  1. Create the repo in Github and copy the URL
  2. Then, if the remote repository linked to your local one is called Origin (as usual). Do git remote set-url origin https://github.com/username/your-new-repo
  3. Do git remote -v to check that the change went ok
  4. Now you can use git push to put all your changes upstream

Upvotes: 2

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