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I forked a remote repository A that I do not own and began to do changes on it. Let's call this fork B.

Then someone asked me to add some functionality to project A. However, I don't want to fork A again since the two forks would have the same name.

Is there a way to clone A in new branch of B?

Rodrigo
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  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1628088/reset-local-repository-branch-to-be-just-like-remote-repository-head – Rodrigo Aug 26 '18 at 16:03

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You can add A as a new remote (e.g. "upstream"):

git remote add upstream git@github.com:originalauthor/repo.git

Then you can check out that remote branch and turn it into a branch:

git checkout upstream/master
git checkout -b upstream-master

And then make your new changes on a branch diverged from that.

Ideally, you'll want to periodically rebase your changes on that branch, after pulling it:

git checkout upstream-master
git pull upstream --rebase
L3viathan
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