How To Remove A Project From Github

I was looking to aGitHub project that I wanted to clone in my desktop to try some samples: beginning of all I updated the GitHub Windows client that I suggest you to install if yous want to follows some GitHub projects!
However,  didn't call back how to do information technology and I unintentionally clicked the fork it push button: from and so, it appears as a new project for my account (as it is clearly explained in this  assist page). Even thought editing my local copy and even make a syncwill but edit my fork on my repo folio, I won't exist able to update my local re-create with future chiefprojection changes: so I wanted to delete, in my GitHub account, that accidentally forked projection.

I found the deletion procedure of my fork not so easy to exist found and so in the following I'll give you some advices how to do it: then, in a second section of this post, I'll bear witness you how to clone a project without forking it!! 😉

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1) Delete a forked project.

First of all, become to your administration page clicking on your account name (east.g. continienzo) at the top right carte, and so go to the Repositories tab to encounter all your projects in GitHub, like the forked one too.

If you want to delete i of them (e.g.SignaturePad), click on its proper noun to get to its repository folio: please detect that, on the lesser of the correct side menu of this folio, y'all can meet that the HTTPS clone URLis the one related to my fork (e.1000. https://github.com/continienzo/SignaturePad.git) and not to the principal project.

To delete this forked project y'all must get to a not easy to find section, clicking the Settings link (always in the right side menu): at the bottom of that Settings page at that place is a red Danger Zone , that is the relevant 1 for deleting that repository.

After clicking the Delete this repository button, yous will be asked to type the proper noun of the repository you lot want to delete, that is your loginName/projectName (due east.g. continienzo/SignaturePad), and click on the I sympathize the consequences, delete this repository button.

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ii) How to correctly clone a project on our desktop

First get to the projection's GitHub repository you want to clone. And so, if not already done, login into GitHub site. Click the Clone in Desktop button, under HTTPS clone URL at the bottom of the right side carte.

Of import
BECAREFUL that, if you are not logged in the GitHub site when you click the Clone in Desktop button, it is always asked to y'all to install the "GitHub for Windows" awarding, even thought it is already installed!! So, delight remember to log in before clicking that button …

Request to install GitHub for Windows (it happens as well if yous accept already installed it Simply you are not logged!!)

If you have the GitHub Windows client installed on your desktop, the post-obit popup will be prompted to allow the site to open that plan: that client volition be launched and ask you for the directory where to clone that project.

At the end, on the left side of the GitHub Windows customer, as well that new projection will be listed amid the previous ones and you tin can go to the directory of the cloned code, right clicking on the project name and choosing the Open in explorer overlay carte.

An alternative way to clone in desktop is to drag the URL of the repository from your browser onto the desktop GitHub customer: therefore resize your browser window then you tin elevate the repository onto the GitHub windows application. It will immediately clone that repository to your local GitHub repository even if you are not signed in.

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Another way that works even if you are not logged in GitHub, is to elevate the URL of the repository from your browser onto the desktop GitHub application, peradventure resizing the browser window so you can drag the repository onto the GitHub windows application: with Internet Explorer this is very easy!

On the opposite, I did not find any style to exercise the same with Microsoft Edge browser …

How To Remove A Project From Github,

Source: https://enzocontini.blog/2014/10/26/how-to-delete-an-accidentally-forked-github-project-and-clone-it-in-a-proper-way/

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