How to fork the ASP.NET Web Stack to GitHub

29 March, 2012. It was a Thursday.

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

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: 
        <pre>git remote add github git@github.com:jbogard/aspnetwebstack.git</pre>
        
          * Push the aspnetwebstack repository you just cloned up to GitHub: 
            <pre>git push github master</pre>
            
              * Profit!</ol>

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