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Detach fork

frarugi87

Hello

Sorry if this is a kind of noobish question, but I couldn't find a solution to this.

I forked a repository from another account to my Bitbucket one. Now, I'd like to detach this fork. As for now in the repository overview I can read "Fork of: the original repository"; I'd like to remove this, but at the same time I'd like to preserve the commit history.

How can I do it?

I read from another answer that I should just remove the remote, but I couldn't find any remote variable in the configuration menu of the repository.. Where is that supposed to be?

Best regards

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GeoffB

I can't find anyway to remove the "fork of" relationship either. On GitHub this can only be done by a request to support, but is typically completed within a day or two.

If we're effectively taking ownership of a code base (where the original owner wants to keep their own record) are we best to simply clone and commit into a blank repo?

evzijst

I'm afraid this is actually not possible. Short of deleting the original repository, the relationship cannot be broken. Note that this is not really out of any philosophical reason, but more something we have never gotten around to. If you feel strongly, please raise an issue at https://bitbucket.org/site/master

antonsson

Here is the feature request linking to this post
https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/13645/detach-fork-from-upstream-repository

aloraine

Maybe this:

clone your downstream fork onto your local
create a new empty repo on bitbucket
rename "origin" on your local clone to your new empty repo
push your clone to the new origin
go to your new "origin" - check that all the commits and branches you expect to see are there

Alain Giller

If you do this, you will lose all pull requests history

daniel debela

The only way this could be done is to do the following

# retire your current repo keep it as read-only for references purposes.

# Create a new empty repository

# Move over current active branches

Jason Harrison_dno8te

Contact technical support and have them detach the source repo from the forked repo.

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