How to fork the ASP.NET Web Stack to GitHub

I find GitHub a lot easier to work with for visual diffs etc., so if you’re interested in forking the newly released ASP.NET Web Stack on CodePlex to GitHub, it’s quite simple.

Prerequisites:

First, get a GitHub account and make sure you’re set up locally. GitHub has a great tutorial here: http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/

Next, just create a dummy repository and make sure you can push/pull OK.

Forking a CodePlex repository

1. Create an aspnetwebstack repository on GitHub:
   
   You can just call it “aspnetwebstack” to make things easy.
   • Clone the CodePlex repository locally, using the Git bash or Posh-Git

     git clone https://git01.codeplex.com/aspnetwebstack
     cd aspnetwebstack

     • Create a Git remote for your GitHub repository:

       git remote add github [email protected]:jbogard/aspnetwebstack.git

       • Push the aspnetwebstack repository you just cloned up to GitHub:

         git push github master

         • Profit!</ol>