GitHub: Add a fork reference to a repository

Question

I have my own github repository that I want to fork with a new name because it's the 99% the same code, but will have some small changes for separate functionality.

Details:

• eggers/dt-breeze Is a typescript declaration file for breeze using Q.Promise
• eggers/dt-breeze-angular Is a typescript declaration file that swaps out Q.Promise for ng.IPromise

I didn't see a way to fork my own repository, so I created just created a separate repo, and just pushed the original code with changes to the new repo, but I would prefer to have a fork reference.

I saw this question: Add Github fork to existing repository from two years ago, but was hoping that there was an update.

Answer 1

The simplest solution remain a branch within the repo, as mentioned by musicmatze.

Fork doesn't exist for one's own repo (and you can't have two repos with the same name): you can clone, and add an upstream remote as you would with a fork (see this gist), but you won't benefit from the pull request mechanism.

The only other solution would be to create a second GitHub account, and use it to (truly) fork repos from the first account.