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[help] So I cant' fork the fork of repo? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 years ago by spez@sh.itjust.works to c/programming@programming.dev
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Let's say a repo named cool-stuff is on github.
I have a fork of cool-stuff and I have submitted a PR associated with my fork of cool-stuff which is waiting to be merged.

Now, there is another independent fork of cool-stuff,say, even-cooler-stuff which works on new features to introduce to cool-stuff. I would like to contribute to the even-cooler-stuff repo but github won't let me since I already have a fork of cool-stuff.

Is there any way to do what I want like this or should I manually tell the author of even-cooler-stuff the changes I want to do?

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[-] fkn@lemmy.world 38 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

You can add the even-cooler-stuff as another remote repo(like origin) and grab those changes and branch off of one of is branches then you can make pull requests to even cooler stuff from those branches.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7244321/how-do-i-update-or-sync-a-forked-repository-on-github

I'm pretty confident the reason GitHub isn't allowing you to fork the even-cooler-stuff repo is that technically they are the same repo... And multiple remotes should do the trick.

[-] spez@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 years ago

So, if I understand correctly,you mean :

  1. make a new repo and add even-cooler-stuff as remote.
  2. fetch changes from the remote even-cooler-stuff.
  3. make your changes and push to your repo

now I should be able to make a pull request?

[-] Lodra@programming.dev 3 points 3 years ago

Apparently, someone else posted the same solution that I did while I typed it out. Sorry for the duplicate but at least weagree on the solution! A warning on this one though. You want to use a feature branch too. Otherwise you'll mix your changes for cool-stuff with new changes for and from even-cooler-stuff. It may become more confusing and difficult to merge.

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