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Sometimes before I go to bed, or just in leisure time, I spend some time on my mobile, mostly Twitter, Reddit or just reading something on the internet. And at times I find some useful GitHub repos. Most of the times I just wanna Star the repo. But there have been times when I wanted to Fork it as well.
So when you go to a repo on Github on Mobile this is how it shows
And when you click on the forks
You’d expect it to fork just like on a PC but guess what. It doesn’t, it shows you the list of all the people who’ve forked it.
I think there are many others who have faced this issue when trying to fork a repo from you Mobile.
Old Solution
There used to be a solution for this, it was by using the Desktop Site option. Most mobile browsers comes with a builtin option called Request desktop site or something similar. And it will show your website the way it shows on a desktop.
But this seems not to be working anymore on the GitHub sites. Probably GitHub improved the responsiveness of their site.
New solution
However, today, I wanted to fork a repo so badly but didn’t have access to my PC at the time. I could’ve just starred it and later forked but I wanted to know some way to do it. So just like what everyone might’ve done I googled for another solution. But all I found was this single article on hashnode itself using the old solution mentioned above.
Well, what I did was I opened up the repo I wanted and then installed a Safari extension called Web Inspector for inspecting the HTML code. And I skimmed through it to find the fork link. And I FOUND IT!!.
All you have to do is add /fork to your GitHub repo url. For example if the repo(you want to fork)’s url is https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium then just add /fork at the end, that will be https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/fork. And it will ask for confirmation and your good to go, the repo will be forked.
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