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Mitiku
Mitiku

Reputation: 5412

Forking from two repositories

I've been working on one project project_x and I want to fork from another project project_y. But forking from project_y keeps send me to the page for project_x repository page.

Here is the relation ship between the two projects.

project_x is forked from project_z.
project_z is forked from project_y.

I want to fork from project_y. But for some reason I couldn't understand, I can't. Can any body tell me why forking keeps sending me to project_x repository page? Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 486

Answers (1)

Pankaj Singhal
Pankaj Singhal

Reputation: 16053

Short answer:

If you really need to fork project_y, delete your fork of project_x & fork project_y.

Long Answer:

By definition, your fork(project_x) of a fork(project_z) is a fork of the original(project_y). When you open a pull request, you get the option to choose both the origin and the destination for your pull request. The choices available there obviously depend on the fork graph, but as long as there is a path in the graph between the 2 repositories, you should be safe. Also, since pull requests live on the website side, you don't even need to add a remote as long as you don't want to use it from git.

Now, of course, you might want to reconsider your place in that graph, and make yourself a direct child of the real upstream, but that's mostly unrelated.

There is a twisted way to have multiple forks, which is to create organizations and fork in them. That way you can "own" multiple repositories in the same graph. But there's really no need to go there.

Upvotes: 1

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