Swap fork and parent repositories but keep everything else as-is

General
1

I have a situation where a repo exists under one organization. I would like to “transfer” it to another organization, fork it back to original and keep all the PR info and issues, etc, in the original. Basically, I want to keep discussion as it was but convert the current parent to a fork.

An alternative approach may be like:

  1. org/repoA
  2. create fork newowner/repoA from org/repoA
  3. swap fork_id in the DB so that newowner/repoA is the parent of org/repoA

Is this viable alternative or is something liable to break here?

2

The parent repositories will add all the first level forks as it’s remote . Maybe you can copy the whole disk git repository to the new parent after all above steps so that the remotes will be kept in the parent repository.

3

OK, that’s good to know that this will work and there aren’t some terribly dragon hiding somewhere. Actually, I would like to keep the forks of the original repo as-is, just slip new parent in there. Then I guess adding a remote to the fork would do the trick.