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New to git, so this is hopefully a simple question with a simple answer.
I forked a repository on GitHub. I then cloned it on my local machine by using the public repo URL: [email protected]:samuelclay/django-mingus.git, as opposed to the private repo URL: git://github.com/samuelclay/django-mingus.git.
I made some changes to the code, committed those changes, and in order to push my changes up to my forked repo, I issued: git remote add upstream git://github.com/samuelclay/django-mingus.git, and then git push upstream, but while that doesn't give me an error (it says Everything up-to-date), it is certainly not pushing my changes up to GitHub.
Is there a way to change to the private repo URL? Is that even necessary?
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You can make a local copy of your forked repository on your computer with the git clone command. Data Tip: You can also copy the URL directly from your web browser, or in some cases, you might already know the URL.
Just go to https://github.com/new/import . In the section "Your old repository's clone URL" paste the repo URL you want and in "Privacy" select Private .
Forks of public repositories are public, and forks of private ones are private. Removing access to a private repository deletes that person's fork. Deleting a private repository deletes all forks of it, which are also private. If you wish to keep a copy, you have to clone and publish it yourself.
The quick answer Forking creates your own copy of a repository in a remote location (for example, GitHub). Your own copy means that you will be able to contribute changes to your copy of the repository without affecting the original repository. Cloning makes a local copy of a repository, not your own copy.
I was able to easily do this by editing the .git/config file.
$git clone git://github.com/user/test.git # Clone from read only # Make changes $ git push fatal: remote error: You can't push to git://github.com/user/test.git Use [email protected]:user/test.git
So I edited .git/config for that project and changed the origin's url:
[remote "origin"]
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
# Remove this line:
#url = git://github.com/user/test.git
# Add this line:
url = [email protected]:user/test.git
[branch "master"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/master
$ git push Counting objects: 5, done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 298 bytes, done. Total 3 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0) To [email protected]:user/test.git 58986b8..c8bd8c2 master -> master
Success!
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You've gotten the public and private URLs backwards. The git:// URL is the public one; the git@github URL is the private one.
If you want to change a repo URL, just open up your .git/config file in a text editor, find the offending URL, and change it to the other one. Check the git config documentation for more information on the format of the config file.
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