Github doesn’t allow you to fork one of your own repositories to your account. In my case the reason this issue raised it’s ugly head is I’ve a private repo that I need to fork. I can’t just fork it to another user account because then I’d have to pay for a second account to support private repos.
So here’s my workaround.
- Create a new empty repo on Github.
- Clone the new empty repo down to my local dev machine.
- Add the original repo as the upstream of the new local repo.
- Now just fetch and merge the upstream master to new repo master.
In this way I can pull and push code between the two repos. The downside with this is Github doesn’t see the second repo as a fork. So there will be no managing pull requests in the Github UI.
$ git clone git@github.com:CreativeNotice/MyNewRepo.git
$ git remote add upstream git@github.com:CreativeNotice/Kraken-CF.git
$ git fetch upstream master
$ git merge upstream/master master
$ git push
Thanks! This is just what I needed.