fork

Updated: 24.02.2023 When you forked a repo then your copy of forked-repo in your Github profile will be referred to as origin while upstream refers to the real origin where the repo was forked from. If you cloned a repo then you will have local copy of the origin repo.

This is just 100% a copy from gist so I can check it when needed. So you’ve cloned somebody’s repo from github, but now you want to fork it and contribute back. Never fear! Technically, when you fork “origin” should be your fork and “upstream” should be the project you forked; however, if you’re willing to break this convention then it’s easy.