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Question

I would like to fork this repo, git://git.rocketboards.org/linux-socfpga.git . But the problem is it is not hosted on Github, so there is no fork button. One idea came to me is to clone the repo to local, then upload to Github manually. But what if later I format the PC, will I lost the pull ability from upstream? Or a better question is what is the better solution for this?

Answer 1

Cloning the repo and then uploading to Github (by creating an empty Github repository and setting that as a new remote) is the best answer. Forking is a concept on Github (not Git) that involves the other repository being cloned to a new repository on the server, so you're essentially doing exactly the same thing manually.

Additionally, your ability to change your repository or pull from upstream is not locked to that computer... If you later format your PC, simply re-clone your Github repository and add the linux-socfpga repository as a new remote.

Example: git remote add upstream git://git.rocketboards.org/linux-socfpga.git

This will re-add the upstream repository as a remote, which you can pull from via git pull upstream master (or whichever branch you're pulling from).