Fork again a original repo

Question

I forked a repository and cloned it in my local environment, I did some changes in master and create a pull request to merge my changes with the original repo.

But, I have to correct a new bug and I don't want to correct this bug in master of my forked repo, I want to "fork again" in another branch and call it "bugXXX" and create another pull request just with changes to fix this specific bug.

So, how can I fork again in another branch the original repo and fix the bug and create another pull request ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

There is some lack of detail in your question, but I think this is what you want to do.

You don't have to "fork again". Just create a new local branch, say fix-bugXXX :

git checkout -b fix-bugXXX

Fix the bug on this branch, add your changes and commit them locally:

git add file1 file2
git commit -m "Fix bugXXX"

After that, push this new branch to your own GitHub repository. This will create the new branch fix-bugXXX on your GitHub repo as well. Assuming that you left things named by default, the command is:

git push origin fix-bugXXX

In the end, just go to GitHub and create a new pull request from your fix-bugXXX branch to one of the original repo's branches.