#GITHUB DESKTOP FORKED HOW TO#

To UE Staff: the documentation about building from source should be updated with such information, it is currently explaining how to fork the source but not how to update the private fork. On, navigate to the main page of the repository. Then you can look at your repo on GitHub website and you’ll see it updated.

then, you push those changes back to your private fork, you can use the command line or if using GitHub Desktop, click “Push Origin”.

(this assumes you are working on the release branch, update accordingly) The git official website currently maintains a build of Git for Windows, still using the MSYS2 environment.

then, you need to merge them with your local stuffs: Here is a simple guide using the desktop client for GitHub: Click the fork button of the repo on : Make sure you have the desktop client installed. fork of Cygwin, a Unix-like emulation environment.

now you get the changes from the upstream remote:.

You are only doing this once, no need to add the remote every time. See all open pull requests for your repositories and check them out as if they were a local branch, even if theyre from upstream branches or forks. 'master'), select History in the left panel click 'select Branch to Compare.

you need to add a remote named “upstream” pointing to the actual parent fork, so type this: for those with this issue, heres how I resolved it on GitHub Desktop: in your forked branch (e.g.

To confirm deletion, you need to write down the your github username and repository name that you want to delete. Don’t let the name confuse you, this does not point to the original repo you forked from. From the GitHub documentation on forking a repository: Once the clone is complete your repo will have a remote named origin that points to your fork on GitHub. After that scroll to the bottom of the page. You have to add the original repository (the one you forked) as a remote.

You should have only the origin remote which is pointing to your fork (“ ”) A simple way to delete a repository on github: Open the repository you want to delete.

Open a command line shell in the folder of your git repository (if you are using GitHub Desktop, you can use “Repository/Open in command prompt” to do this)Ĭheck all the remotes you currently have with the following command: I don’t think there is a proper answer above to this actually important topic when working with the engine source, so here is what I am doing:

Github desktop forked