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Created March 26, 2020 06:08
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How to fork a single branch of a repo, preserving commit log
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fork-a-branch.sh
mkdir target-repo
cd target-repo
git init
git remote add origin [email protected]...
git remote add upstream [email protected]....
git fetch upstream
git pull upstream master
git push origin master
Alternative:
git clone [email protected]...
cd target-repo
git remote add upstream [email protected]....
git fetch upstream
git pull upstream master
git push origin master
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