Dupliforking

Dupliforking

This document describes a way to "fork" a project multiple times, which we call "dupliforking".

Why Duplifork?

We invented this process because GitHub will only allow one fork per project, per organization.

Since a person might want to make more than one app using the Bootplate template, we needed a way to enable this.

Instructions

The following command-line instructions should work on Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows if the official Git client is installed.

Let's say you want to create a new app called "MillionDollars".

1. Clone the bootplate repository and enter the directory.

    git clone https://github.com/enyojs/bootplate.git MillionDollars
   
    cd MillionDollars
   

2. Initialize the subrepositories.

    git submodule update --init
   

3. Create a new GitHub repository for your app.

   Click Here

4. Point your clone of bootplate at your new GitHub repository. (This step changes where the code is pushed to and pulled from.)

    git remote set-url origin [email protected]:<your user name>/MillionDollars.git
   

   Users of other tools may just edit the config file, MillionDollars/.git/config:

    [remote "origin"]
        url = [email protected]:<your user name>/MillionDollars.git
        ...
   

5. Push to your new repository.

You're all set!