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Karolína Vyskočilová
Karolína Vyskočilová

Reputation: 1325

Forked repository to standalone

I created a forked GitHub repo of WordPress plugin, fixed many things and finally overtaken the plugin. Thats why I would love to make my forked repo as a standalone repository (with issues and possibility to fork etc.). How can I do that and keep all the changes already done?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 616

Answers (1)

Lucas S.
Lucas S.

Reputation: 2401

GitHub actually has a wiki page about that topic: Duplicating a repository.

Basically, you clone the old repository to your PC

git clone https://github.com/you/old-repository

and then do a mirror-push to the new location

cd old-repository
git push --mirror https://github.com/you/new-repository

If you don't want to create a new repo with a different name, you might have to delete the fork before the mirror-push.

Upvotes: 3

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