Github：我有一个叉子叉子......我可以把它变成原始仓库的叉子吗？

Question

I have the following scenario:

.../orig-user/repo   # the original repo
.../user2/repo       # a fork of above
.../user3/repo       # a fork of .../user2/repo

is there any convenient way to "re-home" .../user3/repo so it becomes a 'direct' fork of .../orig-user/repo ?

Alternatively, is there a simple way for user3 to stay updated without involving user2 ?

Answer 1

You can change/add remote (say, upstream ) that will indicate /orig-user/repo .

If your upstream already exists, then change that url with /orig-user/repo.

$ git remote -v      # see all the remotes
$ git remote set-url upstream <url-of-orig-user-repo>      # change the upstream url

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Or, add a new upstream one.

$ git remote add <upstream> <url-of-orig-user-repo>    # Add new remote/repositories 

Now when need to take the changes of /orig-user/repo repo just pull from upstream

$ git pull upstream master         # here, upstream is the remote of /orig-user/repo 

Answer 2

If you just want to allow user3 to push/pull from original repo :

How do I change which GitHub project I forked from?

If you want to also change the "forked from ..." message in the repo :

Manually set 'forked from' to GitHub project