I am starting with android Rom development. The original author of the sources have uploaded it on github As of now i have used the repo tool of google to sync it from github to my local machine
How can i fork that repo without downloading it again?
Should i just go into that directory and execute after forked from github website?
$ git clone https://github.com/username/repo-name.git'
I cannot try it since the repo is still being synced.
I think you can change git repo remote address
for example:
$ git remote rm origin
$ git remote add origin git_forked_repo_address
You should:
rename the initial url remote name into upstream
git remote rename origin upstream
add a new origin:
git add origin https://YourLogin@github.com/YourLogin/yourFork
That way, you can still keep track of the original repo while pushing to your fork.
To illustrate that update process, see:
