Stage 2 · Lesson 2 of 7
Forks, origin and upstream
You cannot push to someone else's , so you it. A fork is a copy of the project that GitHub makes under your account, and you can push to it. When you clone (download) your fork, a remote called points to it.
A remote is just a saved address of another copy of the repository. Then add the original repository as a second remote, usually called upstream: git remote add upstream https://github.com/owner/project.git. From then on, you fetch new work from upstream and push your to origin.
You open from a branch on your fork into the upstream repository. git remote -v shows both. Mixing them up is the classic beginner mistake.
You push to upstream and get rejected, or you fetch only from origin and build on old code.
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Resources for this stage
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- BookFreePro Git
Scott Chacon and Ben Straub
Chapters 3, 5 and 6: branching, contributing to a project, and GitHub forks