Github: Forking after removing fork

Question

I've removed my fork but now I cannot fork same repo again. I just see Github's 404-page when trying to "re-fork". How I can fork now?

Answer 1

You will find a similar behavior with old versions of GitHub for Enterprise, as illustrated in the issue 50.

The recommendation, for forks on GitHub, is to wait a few hours after deleting the previous fork, and try again (clicking on that fork button).

Note that you shouldn't have to delete a fork if you intent to make new pull requests: simply isolate them in their own branch after having updated your fork (pushing to origin the latest from upstream).

See also (to avoid deleting a fork):

• "My pull request has been merged, what to do next?"
• "How to do a Github pull request?"
• "Pull request without forking?"