Let’s say a repo named cool-stuff
is on github.
I have a fork of cool-stuff
and I have submitted a PR associated with my fork of cool-stuff
which is waiting to be merged.
Now, there is another independent fork of cool-stuff
,say, even-cooler-stuff
which works on new features to introduce to cool-stuff
. I would like to contribute to the even-cooler-stuff
repo but github won’t let me since I already have a fork of cool-stuff
.
Is there any way to do what I want like this or should I manually tell the author of even-cooler-stuff
the changes I want to do?
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/forking_workflow.html
How is this different from GitHub?
Just to make sure there’s no misunderstanding: When I want to contribute to a project I’m not involved in, like inkscape, I’m not allowed to create a branch in their repo, so I have to fork it, which creates a copy of the repo, and sets the original repo as a remote.
Note that git is a distributed VCS that doesn’t distinguish between servers and clients. Forking and cloning are the same operation from a technical perspective, except when you
git clone
, the copy ends up on your local machine, and when you press the “fork” button, the copy is on a GitHub/GitLab server.