Delete forked repo from GitHub

I'm starting with git and GitHub and there's a project I'm watching on GitHub. I unintentionally clicked to fork it. Now it appears as a new project to me.

I have some doubts about it:

• I know if commit or do another thing to my forked repo, it will be updated, but the updated code will take effect only after the project's author request the pull. Right?
• If I go to admin panel on GitHub there's a delete option. If I delete it as the option above, will it make any effect in the original one or not?

I'd like to delete it. By now I'm just studying the code and don't really need the fork.

Solution 1:

By far the easiest way is to log in GitHub account:

1. Click to your repository for example yourUsername/yourRepository for example mbaric/zpropertyz.
2. Then in the main toolbar of GitHub click on Settings
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page to the section called Danger Zone and you will find Delete this repository button
4. When you click it another pop up will appear here you need to type in your Github username and the name of your repository in this format gitHubUsername/nameOfTheRepository and click on the button below which says: I understand the consequences, delete the repository
5. If you are having trouble doing it, below are the images that can be checked…

2020-01-15 - Here are images. Enjoy.

Solution 2:

Deleting it will do nothing to the original project. Editing it will only edit your fork on your repo page.

Solution 3:

Just delete the forked repo from your GitHub account.

https://help.github.com/articles/deleting-a-repository/

• If I go to admin panel on GitHub there's a delete option. If I delete it as the option above, will it make any effect in the original one or not?

It wont make any changes in the original one; cos, its your repo now.

Solution 4:

There will not be any harm deleting the forked repositories. You can again fork that. It won't change the original code. The flow is like this...

1) You fork a repository. Just think of this as another copy of code which you can access or make changes to. The url of this repository will be of the form https://github.com/your-user-name/original-repo.

2) You make some changes to that in your local machine and push them. Now the copy you created will be updated, but not the original one from which you have forked your repo.

3) If you want the changes you added to your forked repo to be applied to original repo(this may be helpful to the people who are organizing the repo) then you have to create a pull request which you can do through UI. Then if they like your contribution, they will merge that with their code.

Generally this is what open source organizations do.