Discussion on "How to Fork a Repo on GitHub using your Mobile Device"

Timonwa Akintokun · 2021-07-26T09:57:39.360Z

Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to fork a repo on GitHub but didn't have access to a computer? Well, I have, and it was a pain in the butt. (Ps. You can skip the back story and go straight to the tutorial. Head over to How to fork ...

It's the fact she had receipts of people that actually needed this info that got me. 😂😂 Well done, Timonwa. It really was a nice read.

That was an amazing article. I did used to do this before, but now it doesn’t work for some reason, maybe GitHub improved their responsive website. I skimmed through their HTML code and found an alternative to this solution.

Just go to /fork for that repo. For eg: if the repo is github.com/user/reponame then go to github.com/user/reponame/fork and it will ask for confirmation and you are good to go.

Switching to desktop view still works for me though but next time I want to do it I will try using /fork. Thank you for sharing it

Pelumi Eyitimonwa Akintokun

It works? I think I might just be an iPhone thing. Let me try Google Chrome. Anyway thanks

You da real MVP. Desktop mode doesn’t work for me (iPhone w/safari, Firefox, DuckDuckGo, chrome); the button simply fails to appear, even in desktop mode. /fork works, though.

Woah I didn't knew that this could fit in a Blog. 😂

Great article Timonwa. Love to hear more from you

Awesome, thanks for sharing.

That's it Timonwa. I do all the time.

I'm sharing this on Twitter.

Thank you Kayode.🥰

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