Let's say I have a fork in the repository user\original as meuser\original .
In case I want to create a new fork of the first, how do I do? In github when clicking on create a new fork it only redirects to the existing fork.
How would I be if I rename fork meuser\original as meuser\original-OLD and want to create a new fork meuser\original with the latest updates?
I ended up finding an article on how to do this.
The procedure is called "Dupliforking" and the article link is this: link
Below a translation:
Suppose you want to create the "MillionDollars" repo.
Clone the original repository (here the bootplate) and cd up to the folder.
git clone https://github.com/enyojs/bootplate.git MillionDollars
cd MillionDollars
Initialize the sub-repositories.
git submodule update --init
Go to the GitHub website and create a new repository with the chosen name ("MillionDollars").
Point the bootplate clone to your new repository (This step changes where commits are downloaded and sent)
git remote set-url origin [email protected]:<your user name>/MillionDollars.git
Text editors can also directly edit the file MillionDollars/.git/config :
[remote "origin"]
url = [email protected]:<your user name>/MillionDollars.git
...
Push your repository
All set!
In order to create a fork, because you do not create a branch in the same repository instead of a fork, it preserves all previous commits, then you can merge whatever you want with the master.
Edit: Removed the link, after realizing the real idea of the question:)