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Asked: 2026-06-09T00:08:43+00:00

This is the situation: Someone else has the main project on github, which I

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This is the situation:

Someone else has the “main” project on github, which I forked (on github) long ago, then made changes, eventually ending up with with my own mess which I do not want to keep any more.

Now, I pulled the main’s latest version to my local repository and make a few changes. I like to share this new version on my github fork now.

This means there are 3 versions now:
1. Main original on github (to which I can’t push).
2. My fork on github which I want to discard.
3. My local version which I like to get into my github repo.

What do I have to do to push my local version up to github, simply replacing everything that was there? Do I have to erase the repo on gitgub for that? Or is there a way to say: push this, replacing everything you have there already?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Assuming that you’ve added your github fork as a repo named origin and that you care about the master branch:

    git push -f origin master:master

    Repeat for each branch you want to replace.

    If you have any branches on your old fork you want to delete,

    git push origin :branch_name
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