Cannot clone a 2nd GItHub fork
I forked someone else's Godot repository twice – 1st) to contribute; 2nd) I'm converting it from GDScript to C#.
When I go into VCS > Get From Version Control > GitHub, I see my repos plus the 1st fork "godot-levelblock", but not the 2nd fork “godot-levelblock-csharp”.
Is there any way to get Rider to see my 2nd fork?
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My PR on the 1st fork was accepted. I've noticed that on my own repo page, only the 1st fork is listed. With my pull request accepted, I deleted that fork, but my repo page still only lists the first fork.
So I deleted the 2nd fork, too. With both gone, I re-forked for the “-csharp” work and now everything is working.
Maybe I just don't know how to GitHub with multiple forks.
As far as I can see it is not possible to fork a same GitHub repository multiple times: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19279490/can-i-fork-another-persons-repo-twice-into-my-own-account#:~:text=You%20are%20unable%20to%20fork,the%20URL%20used%20to%20clone
I made 1 fork to submit improvements to the GdScript project. I made the 2nd fork from my same account for converting to C#.
I have 2 forks of the same repository in my account.
If that's not supposed to be possible, they've introduced a bug in their web UI.
Thank you for the update.
I think that forking your own repository (from personal account) multiple times is possible. Only forking a repository from a different account multiple times should be unsupported. So if you forked your fork the second time, then it is expected to work.
Do you see both fork repositories now in the IDE - Git > Clone.. > GitHub menu?
I am forking https://github.com/ReunMedia/godot-levelblock.
You are correct! I tried to fork again and an account cannot fork a 2nd time.
But for some reason, I have Dustin00 and Dustin-LastName, both can make 1 fork.
But they are not 2 accounts, since Git Home should just show the Repos for the logged-in one, right? I don't know what the Dustin-LastName accountish thing is, I guess.
So I guess Rider only sees the Dustin00 account repos and doesn't hint about… whatever that other thing is.
(Sorry, I've used GitHub over 10 years at work on corporate platforms and never needed to multi-fork before, much less on the GitHub site. It makes sense that you'd fork once and then just create branches, but in this case the C# version would never be merged back in, so I thought 2 forks was best)
Thank you for the information.
Hm.. interesting. Not sure what the other 'account' could be. Maybe you have a personal account and another account which is managed by organization?
You could try setting up another account in Settings (`⌘ + ,` or `Ctrl + Alt + S`) > Version Control > GitHub.