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Add an upstream to forked repositories

See original GitHub issue

Description

Currently, cloning a forked repository adds an origin remote linking to the fork on GitHub. However, there is no way to fetch changes from the parent, because no remote is added for the parent.

Version

GitHub Desktop version: 0.7.0

OS version: macOS 10.12.3 (16D32)

Steps to Reproduce

Fork a repo on GitHub
Clone the fork with GitHub Desktop
Run git remote on the command line

Expected behavior: Two remotes are present, with origin linking to the fork and upstream or username-of-parent-repo linking to the parent repo

Actual behavior: Only the origin remote is present

Reproduces how often: Always

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Reactions:17
Comments:5 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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j-f1commented, Sep 7, 2017

I think it should be automatic since they don’t have to use the remote if they don’t want to, and it shouldn’t cause any issues, unlike LFS which requires that you pay for storage space if you use too much.

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joshabercommented, Sep 7, 2017

I’m leaning that way too. The only case that would cause problems is if they already have an upstream remote configured to something else. I gotta think those cases would be vanishingly rare tho.

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