Look at the URL of the page where it says "This URL has *Read+Write* access", you should be on *your fork* now, which *you* have read-write access too.
If you revisit Repo A ( http://github.com/edgecase/ruby_koans ) it should still say "read only" +Clint On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:18 AM, (Public) Gene M. Angelo, Jr. < [email protected]> wrote: > BTW, after I forked repro A, the url says > > "This URL has *Read+Write* access" > Do I have to change to read-only? or is that just telling me what my rights > are? > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Clint Shryock <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Normally you would click the "fork" button near the top of >> http://github.com/edgecase/ruby_koans. Github will fork the project to >> your own repo, and you can use that URL to check the project out. On your >> harddrive it will have no direct connection to the original. It will, >> however, so your repo as a fork of repo A on the Github page for your repo. >> >> As far as being "read only", only you will have write access to your fork, >> unless you specifically assign collaborators. Others can still fork your >> copy. >> >> That's the gist of it. Is there any particular reason why you want to >> disassociate them? >> >> +Clint >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:19 AM, (Public) Gene M. Angelo, Jr. < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thank you, but I do not think so... >>> >>> repro A belongs to someone else. repro B does not exist, but will belong >>> to me. >>> >>> I want to copy A to B; I do not want B to have any association with A >>> after the copy. >>> >>> repro B must be public, but will be read-only. I doubt someone will want >>> to do anything with it at all (nor do I care), but I need to keep it public >>> on github so I do not have to pay for it. >>> >>> Currently, I have repro A on my harddrive, but all the git repo >>> associations point to the original repro. I want to dissassociate these and >>> create a copy to repro B somehow. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Lee Hambley <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> You should be able to visit the project settings for your fork, and >>>> change the visibility to private… does that achieve what you were hoping >>>> for? >>>> >>>> - VG, Lee >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "GitHub" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]<github%[email protected]> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> Gene M. Angelo, Jr. >>> http://www.geneangelo.com >>> ----------------------------------------------------------- >>> *# You have not yet reached enlightenment >>> ...*<http://github.com/edgecase/ruby_koans> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "GitHub" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<github%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "GitHub" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<github%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > > Sincerely, > Gene M. Angelo, Jr. > http://www.geneangelo.com > ----------------------------------------------------------- > *# You have not yet reached enlightenment > ...*<http://github.com/edgecase/ruby_koans> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GitHub" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<github%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitHub" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en.
