Repositories

Detach a fork

Detach a fork from its parent: it becomes an ordinary repository with no parent, and can then be made public or private.

POST/repos/{owner}/{name}/detach

Needs the Admin role on the fork. Its code, settings, and the pull requests it already opened into the parent stay as they are; it can no longer be synced or open new pull requests into the parent. It cannot be attached again.

The repository, now with no parent. Needs the Admin role (403 otherwise); 422 when it is not a fork. It cannot be attached again. See Detach a fork.

Authentication: Required. Send an access token as Authorization: Bearer.
MCP tool: repository with action detach_fork, and the same inputs
Scope: An access token needs repo:admin.

Path parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`owner`	string	Yes	The workspace that owns the repository.
`name`	string	Yes	The repository’s name.

Example request

curl -X POST https://api.g1t.sh/repos/flagon-io/hello/detach \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $G1T_TOKEN"

Example response

A successful request answers 200 with:

{
  "id": "rep_01m4b7k2v9c3tq8x5n6d0fr1hz",
  "namespace": "ada",
  "name": "hello",
  "is_private": false,
  "owner_id": "usr_01kq3r8w2m6vd5e9t0hy7jx4cb",
  "default_branch": "main",
  "fork_of": null,
  "parent_id": null,
  "parent": null,
  "allow_forking": false,
  "protected": false,
  "created_at": "2026-10-14T09:30:12.418Z",
  "website": null,
  "archived_at": null
}

Errors

A failed request answers with one of these statuses and a body like {"error": {"code": "not_found", "message": "Repository not found."}}. See errors.

Status	Code	When
401	`unauthenticated`	A token is required, or the one sent is not valid.
403	`forbidden`	The token is valid but not allowed to do this, such as a member-only change, or a token without the scope it needs.
404	`not_found`	It does not exist, or you cannot see it.
409	`conflict`	The request conflicts with the current state.
422	`invalid`	The input is not valid. `message` says which field and why.