I have the following.
Base Repo
- main
MyFork Repo (from Base Repo)
- main
- feature A
- feature B
AnotherFork Repo (from Base Repo)
- main
- feature C
I have forked MyFork Repo
from Base Repo
. That works fine. Now I'm interesting in the feature C
branch from AnotherFork Repo
. I can't fork AnotherFork Repo
because I already forked Base Repo
.
I also can't just clone AnotherFork Repo
and create branches there or push to feature C
. That is just with PRs possible.
Can I do then i.e. something like that?
MyFork Repo
- main
- feature A (is linked to Base Repo)
- feature B (is linked to Base Repo)
- feature C (is linked to AnotherFork Repo)
Or do I have to delete MyFork Repo
and create then a fork to AnotherFork Repo
?
There are two typical workflows: central and distributed.
In this workflow, there is a central / "official" repository from all other pull and push. In this workflow, you'd push feature/C
from AnotherFork
to Base
and then pull feature/C
from Base
to MyFork
.
$ cd AnotherFork
$ git push feature/C
$ cd MyFork
$ git fetch && git switch feature/C
In this workflow, some repositories know others as remotes, and you can directly pull feature/C
from AnotherFork
to MyFork
.
$ cd MyFork
$ git remote add AnotherFork proto://url/AnotherFork
$ git fetch AnotherFork
$ git switch remotes/AnotherFork/feature/C