so I'm supposed to be forking from the main repository and then pushing/pulling everything from my fork. However, I screwed up and cloned, and created a branch locally from the main repository instead.
Is it possible for me to push the code that I have been working on to the forked repository?
I tried adding a remote to the forked repository to push, but I keep getting this error:
Updates were rejected because a pushed branch tip is behind its remote counterpart.
Check out this branch and merge the remote changes (e.g. 'git pull') before pushing
again.
How should I solve this issue? PS, im pretty new to Git. I have git pull from the main repository and tried to git pull from the forked repository (this is weird to me since my branch is from the main repository...) , so everything is up to date but I still get the above error.
EDIT:
Okay, so I was being a moron the whole time. So how I solved this is that I was basically created a branch on my forked repository, and then pushed to that branch. I was being a moron the whole time because what I did was git push forked_repo and I did not specify a branch, and being the dumbass that I am, I tried to do a git push forked_repo mylocalbranchname, thinking it would automatically create a branch for me. So once, I created the branch in my forked repo properly, I was able to push it into the newly created branch with no issues.
Mad apologies to such a dumb question LOL.
Also since I cloned the main repo onto my local computer, should I just delete the entire repo, and re-clone the forked one? What is the best practice for this?
