fork a forked project with the original acount

Question

I have a project on GitHub called A and my user is user1. Later, another user, user2 forked my project A to his new project B. Now he changed enough my original project (and the name of the project) and I want to fork his project B to another project in my account. I expected that when I pushed fork button, a C project was created in my account, but instead of it, the browser redirected me to the original project A.

I know I can pull the changes made in project B again to my project A, but the changes in B are important and I want to create another project. I can create a new branch in project A, but I don't like this approach.

It is possible to actually create the project C in my account (maybe with a 3rd new name)? How can I achieve this goal?

Answer 1

You're experiencing this for the same reason that you can't github fork the same project twice from the same account. It has to do with how github actually defines a fork and how it treats it. When you fork ala Github, your personal repo resulting from the fork actually shares the same identifier as the parent project. Trying to fork C from B back into the same account which owns A is thus impossible.

You should use git commands, it's very common to interact with multiple remotes. In your local repo, add both A and B as remotes (git remote add <alias_B> <url_B>) then fetch/merge/push changes from one repo to another.