Delete forked repo from GitHub

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I m starting with git and GitHub and there s a project I m watching on GitHub  I unintentionally clicked to fork it  Now it appears as a new project to me   I have some doubts about it    I know if commit or do another thing to my forked repo  it will be updated  but the updated code will take effect only after the project s author request the pull  Right  If I go to admin panel on GitHub there s a delete option  If I delete it as the option above  will it make any effect in the original one or not    I d like to delete it  By now I m just studying the code and don t really need the fork

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I had also faced this issue  NO it will not affect your original repo by anyway  just simply delete it by entering the name of forked repo

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Answer is NO  It won t affect the original main repository where you forked from   Functionally  it will be incorrect if such an access is provided to a non-owner    Just wanted to add this though      Warning  It will delete the local commits and branches you created on   your forked repo  So  before deleting make sure there is a backup of   that code with you if it is important    Best way would be getting a git backup of forked repo using   git bundle    or other methods that are familiar

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Just delete the forked repo from your GitHub account    https   help github com articles deleting-a-repository    If I go to admin panel on GitHub there s a delete option  If I delete it as the option above  will it make any effect in the original one or not       It wont make any changes in the original one  cos  its your repo now

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Select repo- Settings-  scroll down Delete repo

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Deleting your forked repository will not affect the master original  repository   Like I have shown an example by deleting a forked repo  This is my forked repo  Image   Deleting the forked repo  And no changes to the original repository   The master repo is something like an original one   Forking is same as creating a xerox copy of the original one   Even if you get your xeroxed paper damaged  will it be that the original document also gets damaged  Obviously No   So its the same as that   Hope this helps

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Deleting it will do nothing to the original project  Editing it will only edit your fork on your repo page

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select project to delete- settings- buttom click delete button- enter name of the repositories

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By far the easiest way is to log in GitHub account   Click to your repository for example yourUsername yourRepository for example mbaric zpropertyz  Then in the main toolbar of GitHub click on Settings Scroll to the bottom of the page to the section called Danger Zone and you will find Delete this repository button When you click it another pop up will appear here you need to type in your Github username and the name of your repository in this format gitHubUsername nameOfTheRepository and click on the button below which says  I understand the consequences  delete the repository If you are having trouble doing it  below are the images that can be checked     2020-01-15 - Here are images  Enjoy

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There will not be any harm deleting the forked repositories  You can again fork that  It won t change the original code  The flow is like this     1  You fork a repository  Just think of this as another copy of code which you can access or make changes to  The url of this repository will be of the form https   github com your-user-name original-repo   2  You make some changes to that in your local machine and push them  Now the copy you created will be updated  but not the original one from which you have forked your repo    3  If you want the changes you added to your forked repo to be applied to original repo this may be helpful to the people who are organizing the repo  then you have to create a pull request which you can do through UI  Then if they like your contribution  they will merge that with their code   Generally this is what open source organizations do

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There are multiple answers pointing out  that editing deleting the fork doesn t affect the original repository  Those answers are correct  I will try to add something to that answer and explain why in my answer   A fork is just a copy of a repository with a fork relationship   As you can copy a file or a directory locally to another place and delete the copy  it won t affect the original   Fork relationship means  that you can easily tell github that it should send a pull request  with your changes  from your fork to the original repository because github knows that your repository is a copy of the original repository with a few changes on both sides    Just for anybodies information  a pull request or merge request  contains code that has been changed in the fork and is submitted to the original repository  Users with push write access may be different in other git servers  on the original repository are allowed to merge the changes of the pull request into the original repository copy the changes of the PR to the original repository

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No  it will not affect your original repository  just make sure that the repo address looks like  youGitName TheRepository  and not like  OtherPersonGitName TheRepo

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Sweet and simple    Open the repository Navigate to settings Scroll to the bottom of the page  Click on delete  Confirm names of the Repository to delete Click on delete

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