Change git origin to a branch of my own

Question

I cloned someone else's repo to my computer from github to try it out. I eventually made some changes to it (locally) that I do not want to commit to the original repo. Instead, I want to create my own fork of the project, apply the changes I made, then push it to my own repo. How do I do this?

Answer 1

You can add your own repo as a remote and simply push there :

git remote add myFork git://myforkUrl/project.git
git push myFork master

But if you want to work with github you should consider to fork from the github interface.

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Resources :

• GitHub - Fork a repo
• git remote
• git push

Answer 2

You need to change what origin points to:

git remote rm origin
git remote add origin git://newAddress/repo.git
git push origin master

Assuming you already have a bare repository already setup on git://newAddress/repo.git