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I am forking a GitHub project that has been abandoned. There are about 5 important pull requests that need to be accepted (including mine!), but the project owner is AWOL.
When I use the GitHub web interface to fork the project, none of the pull requests are duplicated into my fork.
Using the GitHub web interface, how do I quickly get those pull requests into my fork?
Github allows for repository transfer, requesting this transfers its issues, wiki, stars, and watchers. Bear in mind that when you're doing transfer across user accounts, Github doesn't allow for a fork to exist in the target network.
Transferring a repository gives the new user immediate administrative access to the repository—including its code, issues, pull requests, and releases
Before you transfer a repository, keep these things in mind:
The target account must not have a repository with the same name, or a fork in the same network.
To initiate a transfer, the owner of the repo should do this from Settings → Transfer.
