Maintaining a fork with patches in master









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I want to maintain a fork with custom functionality added on top of the original code. It is not a contribution to the project itself and won't be merged upstream.



What I want to achieve:



  • The GitHub page of the fork should point to the patched version of the project instead of the original one.

  • I should be able to easily merge new upstream code while preserving a separate history for my own commits.

My current plan is to have the upstream/master branch in the fork repository as vendor, from which my own master will be branched. Whenever there is a stable release upstream I can pull & push it into the vendor branch and than rebase my master.



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  1. Is there an easier or cleaner way to achieve the same results?

  2. Should I fork via GitHub web-interface and then move master, or should I create the repository locally as described in this answer?









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  • This seems like a perfectly reasonable workflow. Forking via the GitHub web interface is nice because it provides a pointer to the original project.
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I want to maintain a fork with custom functionality added on top of the original code. It is not a contribution to the project itself and won't be merged upstream.



What I want to achieve:



  • The GitHub page of the fork should point to the patched version of the project instead of the original one.

  • I should be able to easily merge new upstream code while preserving a separate history for my own commits.

My current plan is to have the upstream/master branch in the fork repository as vendor, from which my own master will be branched. Whenever there is a stable release upstream I can pull & push it into the vendor branch and than rebase my master.



Questions:



  1. Is there an easier or cleaner way to achieve the same results?

  2. Should I fork via GitHub web-interface and then move master, or should I create the repository locally as described in this answer?









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  • This seems like a perfectly reasonable workflow. Forking via the GitHub web interface is nice because it provides a pointer to the original project.
    – larsks
    Nov 12 at 4:14












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I want to maintain a fork with custom functionality added on top of the original code. It is not a contribution to the project itself and won't be merged upstream.



What I want to achieve:



  • The GitHub page of the fork should point to the patched version of the project instead of the original one.

  • I should be able to easily merge new upstream code while preserving a separate history for my own commits.

My current plan is to have the upstream/master branch in the fork repository as vendor, from which my own master will be branched. Whenever there is a stable release upstream I can pull & push it into the vendor branch and than rebase my master.



Questions:



  1. Is there an easier or cleaner way to achieve the same results?

  2. Should I fork via GitHub web-interface and then move master, or should I create the repository locally as described in this answer?









share|improve this question















I want to maintain a fork with custom functionality added on top of the original code. It is not a contribution to the project itself and won't be merged upstream.



What I want to achieve:



  • The GitHub page of the fork should point to the patched version of the project instead of the original one.

  • I should be able to easily merge new upstream code while preserving a separate history for my own commits.

My current plan is to have the upstream/master branch in the fork repository as vendor, from which my own master will be branched. Whenever there is a stable release upstream I can pull & push it into the vendor branch and than rebase my master.



Questions:



  1. Is there an easier or cleaner way to achieve the same results?

  2. Should I fork via GitHub web-interface and then move master, or should I create the repository locally as described in this answer?






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  • This seems like a perfectly reasonable workflow. Forking via the GitHub web interface is nice because it provides a pointer to the original project.
    – larsks
    Nov 12 at 4:14
















  • This seems like a perfectly reasonable workflow. Forking via the GitHub web interface is nice because it provides a pointer to the original project.
    – larsks
    Nov 12 at 4:14















This seems like a perfectly reasonable workflow. Forking via the GitHub web interface is nice because it provides a pointer to the original project.
– larsks
Nov 12 at 4:14




This seems like a perfectly reasonable workflow. Forking via the GitHub web interface is nice because it provides a pointer to the original project.
– larsks
Nov 12 at 4:14












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A fork is just a more formal way to link those two GitHub repo.



You don't even need to name upstream/master as "vendor": you can directly rebase your own master branch on top of that remote branch.



git fetch upstream
git checkout master
git rebase upstream/master





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  • That's an interesting approach. I guess I should've paid more attention to the git-rebase manpages. Thanks!
    – M.Marcello
    Nov 12 at 9:40










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A fork is just a more formal way to link those two GitHub repo.



You don't even need to name upstream/master as "vendor": you can directly rebase your own master branch on top of that remote branch.



git fetch upstream
git checkout master
git rebase upstream/master





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  • That's an interesting approach. I guess I should've paid more attention to the git-rebase manpages. Thanks!
    – M.Marcello
    Nov 12 at 9:40














up vote
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accepted










A fork is just a more formal way to link those two GitHub repo.



You don't even need to name upstream/master as "vendor": you can directly rebase your own master branch on top of that remote branch.



git fetch upstream
git checkout master
git rebase upstream/master





share|improve this answer




















  • That's an interesting approach. I guess I should've paid more attention to the git-rebase manpages. Thanks!
    – M.Marcello
    Nov 12 at 9:40












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up vote
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A fork is just a more formal way to link those two GitHub repo.



You don't even need to name upstream/master as "vendor": you can directly rebase your own master branch on top of that remote branch.



git fetch upstream
git checkout master
git rebase upstream/master





share|improve this answer












A fork is just a more formal way to link those two GitHub repo.



You don't even need to name upstream/master as "vendor": you can directly rebase your own master branch on top of that remote branch.



git fetch upstream
git checkout master
git rebase upstream/master






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  • That's an interesting approach. I guess I should've paid more attention to the git-rebase manpages. Thanks!
    – M.Marcello
    Nov 12 at 9:40
















  • That's an interesting approach. I guess I should've paid more attention to the git-rebase manpages. Thanks!
    – M.Marcello
    Nov 12 at 9:40















That's an interesting approach. I guess I should've paid more attention to the git-rebase manpages. Thanks!
– M.Marcello
Nov 12 at 9:40




That's an interesting approach. I guess I should've paid more attention to the git-rebase manpages. Thanks!
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