Detach fork

[frarugi87]

Hello

Sorry if this is a kind of noobish question, but I couldn't find a solution to this.

I forked a repository from another account to my Bitbucket one. Now, I'd like to detach this fork. As for now in the repository overview I can read "Fork of: the original repository"; I'd like to remove this, but at the same time I'd like to preserve the commit history.

How can I do it?

I read from another answer that I should just remove the remote, but I couldn't find any remote variable in the configuration menu of the repository.. Where is that supposed to be?

Best regards

[antonsson]

Here is the feature request linking to this post
https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/13645/detach-fork-from-upstream-repository

[daniel debela]

The only way this could be done is to do the following

# retire your current repo keep it as read-only for references purposes.

# Create a new empty repository

# Move over current active branches  

[aloraine]

Maybe this:

• clone your downstream fork onto your local 
• create a new empty repo on bitbucket 
• rename "origin" on your local clone to your new empty repo
• push your clone to the new origin
• go to your new "origin" - check that all the commits and branches you expect to see are there

[Alain Giller]

If you do this, you will lose all pull requests history

[evzijst]

I'm afraid this is actually not possible. Short of deleting the original repository, the relationship cannot be broken. Note that this is not really out of any philosophical reason, but more something we have never gotten around to. If you feel strongly, please raise an issue at https://bitbucket.org/site/master

[Jason Harrison]

Contact technical support and have them detach the source repo from the forked repo.

[GeoffB]

I can't find anyway to remove the "fork of" relationship either.  On GitHub this can only be done by a request to support, but is typically completed within a day or two.

If we're effectively taking ownership of a code base (where the original owner wants to keep their own record) are we best to simply clone and commit into a blank repo?