How can i change the component which was fork from the existing component to a independent git repo or branch ?

[deboyblog]

Describe the issue

There is a component that already exists name a-component
then i create a new component form that existing component name b-component
when b-component have some original words update and new key-value added, and i don't want to sync to the a-component git repo.
but when i clone the a-component repo, it's always the lastest update on b-component.
Q1: how can i create the different branch to contain b-component in a-component git repo?
Q2: when i using this api to get the component info, b-component without git_export, there is noway to clone b-component repo, and there is no field to told me b-component is connect to a-component

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[nijel]

Maybe I'm missing something, but in case you have different branches, the components won't share the repository. How exactly did you create the b-component? "From existing component" chooses different files from the same component, sharing the underlying repo, there is also "Additional branch" where you can choose different branch from the repo (but it has to already exist). See also https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/admin/projects.html#adding-translation-projects-and-components

[deboyblog]

My wablate version is 4.1.1.
I didn't see "Additional branch" option when I create a new component, which step can I see this option?

[nijel]

The option will be there only if there is a repository which has more branches.

[deboyblog]

The option will be there only if there is a repository which has more branches.

how can I cretae more branch if I use the wablate default repository?
I found that I couldn't push it after I cloned my weblate component repo with username and password like git clone https://username:password@translate.xxx.com
when I tried to push the new branch to remote there was an error code 403

[nijel]

In case you did not used remote repository, just create again new component from scratch. Playing with branches doesn't bring any benefits in this case.

[deboyblog]

I changed to use the remote repository by connect to gitlab, it's solved my problem.
Thank you for your patient reply.

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