Forking to Organizations
- November 27, 2012
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technoweenie
We made a slight change to the way you fork a repository. By default, you can fork my repository through an HTTP POST to the repository's fork resource.
curl -X POST https://api.github.com/repos/technoweenie/faraday/forks
This repository forks to your personal account. However, there are cases when
you want to fork to one of your organizations instead. The previous method
required a ?org query parameter:
curl -X POST /repos/technoweenie/faraday/forks?org=mycompany
Query parameters on POST requests are unusual in APIs, and definitely
inconsistent with the rest of the GitHub API. You should be able to post a
JSON body like every other POST endpoint. Now, you can! Only, now we're
calling the field organization.
curl /repos/technoweenie/faraday/forks?org=mycompany \ -d '{"organization": "mycompany"}'
Don't worry, we are committed to maintaining the legacy behavior until the next major change of the GitHub API.