Boyang Yan

Git Fork Subdirectory Of Repo

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Fork A Subdirectory Of Repo

Introduction

Ever wanted to fork a subdirectory and not the whole Git/GitHub repository. Well I have, I recently had to fork a subdirectory of one of the repositories I wanted to work on without the need to fork the whole repository. In this post, I will show you how it’s done.

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/<someones-username>/<some-repo-you-want-to-fork>
cd some-repo-you-want-to-fork

Create a branch using the git subtree command for the folder only

git subtree split --prefix=src -b dir-you-want-to-fork
git checkout dir-you-want-to-fork

Reference List

  1. https://blog.mphomphego.co.za/blog/2021/02/07/How-to-fork-a-subdirectory-of-repo-as-a-different-repo-on-GitHub.html
  2. https://www.mendelowski.com/docs/git/fork-subdirectory/

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