4/7/2024 0 Comments Fork using github desktopIt seems to me that there must be some setting, remote string perhaps (or setting since fork is not a git construct), that tells a repo that it is a fork of another. If that was not the case, I have been able merge unrelated repositories before using the command line ( merge -allow-unrelated-histories) but this seems a messy way to resolve the 's issue, as it will create duplicate very similar histories. I was happy to delete the above repos and start again, since the changes I wished to make were trivial. Perhaps it was because Desktop behaviour has changes due to software updates since they were created, and these broke Desktop's and 's 'fork detection' behaviour? I feel like the above replicated the likely processes I used to create the problem clones. It remains a mystery to me what caused the original incarnations of the above two clones not to be able to be converted to or recognised as forks. I could however go on to create a pull request via, so success in the end. On attempting to sync forks via, it recognises they are not in sync, but presumably as I don't have write privileges to upstream, there is no option for me to sync. Figure 10.18: In your GitHub repo on the web, click Code to Open with GitHub Desktop to download and. The next screen will show a link to the GitHub Desktop web page, and you should download and install the application. Although Desktop did not give me the option to create a pull request, so suspicion! Click the Code > Open with GitHub Desktop drop-down menu button near the middle of your screen, as shown in Figure 10.18. Above the list of files, in the yellow banner, click Compare & pull request to create a pull. In the 'Publish Repository' window, in the 'Name' field, type the desired name of the repository or. In the repository bar, click Publish repository. Using the command line, remove any git remotes currently configured for the repository. On pushing via Desktop I was asked if I wanted to create a fork. Navigate to the original repository where you created your fork. You can add an existing Git repository to GitHub using GitHub Desktop. This time I made the changes directly in main and committed them. Just to test whether 'not creating a new branch' was the cause of my pain, I then deleted the other repo's github clone etc., and again created a new clone using GitHub Desktop. ![]() Success, I have now been able to make changes, commit locally and create a pull request with original upstream repo as the target. It recognised correctly that I didn't have access to upstream and asked to create a fork at CaverBruce. I then created a new branch and used GitHub Desktop to publish it. However to test the Github Desktop route (to fork creation) and recover from my immediate impasse I deleted one repo's clone and removed it from Github Desktop, TortoiseGit and local drive, and started afresh creating a clone using GitHub Desktop. So I'll take on board that best practice is to fork directly using. ![]() ![]() Although I have four clone/fork pairs of repos that are working perfectly afaik for some years. What you say makes sense, however for two clone/'fork' pairs of repos I cannot replicate this behaviour.
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