Delete forked repo from GitHub

Question

I\'m starting with git and GitHub and there\'s a project I\'m watching on GitHub. I unintentionally clicked to fork it. Now it appears as a new project to me.

I have

Answer 1

Deleting your forked repository will not affect the master(original) repository.

Like I have shown an example by deleting a forked repo

This is my forked repo (Image)

Deleting the forked repo

And no changes to the original repository.

The master repo is something like an original one.

Forking is same as creating a xerox copy of the original one. Even if you get your xeroxed paper damaged, will it be that the original document also gets damaged. Obviously No.

So its the same as that.

Hope this helps.