Cloning a repo from someone else's Github and pushing it to a repo on my Github
As Deefour says, your situation isn't much unlike the one in Change the URI (URL) for a remote Git repository. When you clone
a repository, it is added as a remote
of yours, under the name origin
. What you need to do now (as you're not using the old source anymore) is change origin
's URL:
$ git remote set-url origin http://github.com/YOU/YOUR_REPO
If the original repository would update often and you want to get those updates from time to time, then instead of editing origin
it would be best to add a new remote
:
$ git remote add personal http://github.com/YOU/YOUR_REPO
Or maybe even call the old one upstream
:
$ git remote rename origin upstream
$ git remote add origin http://github.com/YOU/YOUR_REPO
Then, whenever you want to get changes from upstream
, you can do:
$ git fetch upstream
As this the source is a sample repository (seems to be kind of a template to start off), I don't think there's a need to keep it nor fork it at all - I'll go with the first alternative here.
GitHub: git clone
someone else's repository & git push
to your own repository
I'm going to refer to someone else's repository as the other repository.
Create a new repository at github.com. (this is your repository)
- Give it the same name as the other repository.
- Don't initialize it with a README, .gitignore, or license.
Clone the other repository to your local machine. (if you haven't done so already)
git clone https://github.com/other-account/other-repository.git
Rename the local repository's current 'origin' to 'upstream'.
git remote rename origin upstream
Give the local repository an 'origin' that points to your repository.
git remote add origin https://github.com/your-account/your-repository.git
Push the local repository to your repository on github.
git push origin master
Now 'origin' points to your repository & 'upstream' points to the other repository.
- Create a new branch for your changes with
git checkout -b my-feature-branch
. - You can
git commit
as usual to your repository. - Use
git pull upstream master
to pull changes from the other repository to your master branch.
Delete git and re-init.
Your purpose is probably to put this repo on yours and make it yours.
The idea is to delete the .git/
and re-initialize.
- go to your cloned repo folder
rm -rf .git
- re-initialize it and then add your remote and do your first push.
git init git add . git commit -m "your commit message" git remote add origin git push origin master