FR: set upstream remote when cloning a forked repo.

[xu-cheng]

I hope hub can automatically set the upstream remote of my forked repo during git clone.

[mislav]

Yes, that might be useful. Thanks for the suggestion!

Also see #471

[Mte90]

any news for this feature?

[mislav]

No news but this has been on my mind to improve the clone and fork set of commands in one go regarding their handling and naming of remotes. I will update here if I've done any work on this, and in the meantime anyone is free to send a proposed improvement. The best way to start a contribution is to first discuss the planned change somewhere so we can review it and 👍 if the idea makes sense.

[mislav]

See #1977

[bbugh]

FYI, the other(?) official(?) github cli can currently do this. It will rename the current origin to upstream and add your fork as the origin.

You can do it with a Y/n prompt:

>> gh repo fork
✓ Created fork bbugh/somewhere
? Would you like to add a remote for the fork? Yes
✓ Added remote origin

Or specify --remote to do it without prompt.

>> gh repo fork --remote