Azure-devops-docs: Dissociate fork from upstream repo

[mchelen]

Is there any way to dissociate a fork from its upstream repo? For example, Repo A might be forked to create Repo B, and then B diverges into its own independent codebase. New branches in Repo B should always have their pull requests default to Repo B, not Repo A.

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• ID: 240f15e3-daf9-78f8-7423-cc17490ee401
• Version Independent ID: 3f1934d0-75c4-56b3-32d5-676b7fbe70b7
• Content: Fork your repository - Azure Repos
• Content Source: docs/repos/git/forks.md
• Product: devops
• GitHub Login: @steved0x
• Microsoft Alias: sdanie

[thejoebourneidentity]

Hello, unfortunately there is no way to disassociate a fork from it's parent repo. This is not ideal, but you could clone B locally and push the contents to a new repo C. You would lose history etc. but it would allow you to begin pushing to 'Repo C'

[mchelen]

Hi Joe, thanks for explaining. That's an interesting approach, and does provide a workaround to the problem. However as you mentioned it can lose some important information, and conflicts with using the "Fork" button from the web interface. Can we request that some better alternative be added, maybe in the repo's settings?

[congyiwu]

Can we request that some better alternative be added, maybe in the repo's settings?

Yeah, that's a reasonable feature request. See and upvote: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/idea/365802/allow-option-of-converting-forks-to-repos.html

[mchelen]

Great, I'll upvote the issue over there. Thanks!