I setup an Octopress project following the given instructions (http://octopress.org/docs/setup/) which have you create a Github repository, and create a local repository on your machine. On your local machine you add a remote to the original Octopress repository and then issue a “git pull” command. Then you add a remote to your Github repository so you can push your changes to your repository.
All of this works as far as it goes, but it doesn’t create a fork of the original project, meaning there’s no obvious (to a newbie) way to issue a pull request to the original Octopress repository.
Is there a way for me to add a fork of the original Octopress repository to my instance of that repository on Github?
If there isn’t a way, can I safely delete my Github instance of Octopress, fork the original on Github, and then add a new remote from my local repository to the newly forked Octopress?
Although people tend to think of their repo on Github as the “official” one, remember that’s a social distinction and not a technical one. From git’s point of view every repo is on equal terms. That means as long as you have pulled every commit into your local repo, you can safely delete the one on Github. Then just fork the Octopress project on github, set it up as a remote on your local repo, and push. Git doesn’t care which repo you originally got any given commit from. It “just works.”