How to avoid error: PR supposed to be on fork instead of original repo?

[1jds]

Hello, wonderful people,

I have a noob question:

When opening a PR to contribute to the codebase for the ‘American to British Translator’, I receive the following standard message: “Looks like this PR was supposed to be made on your own fork, instead of the original boilerplate repository.”

Would anyone be able to explain where I might be going wrong here?

I have followed these steps:

1. fork the original repo (then open with GitPod and test changes)

2. locally clone my fork

3. open local clone directory in VSCode

4. git remote -v to check that ‘origin’ is my fork on my github and ‘upstream’ is the original repo at github.com/freeCodeCamp/boilerplate-project...

5. checkout a new branch

6. make changes

7. git diff to check changes

8. git add .

9. git commit -m ‘message’

10. git push origin branch-name

11. open up my github fork on github.com/1jds/boilerplate-project... and press the green 'Compare & Pull Request" button

12. Step 11 takes me to https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/boilerplate-project-american-british-english-translator/compare/main...1jds:boilerplate-project-american-british-english-translator:fix-updt-var-name-us-brit-trans-project-indx-js?expand=1 So, this is switching to github.com/freeCodeCamp' from 'github.com/1jds

13. The base repository is: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/boilerplate-project-american-british-english-translator/compare/freeCodeCamp:boilerplate-project-american-british-english-translator:main...1jds:boilerplate-project-american-british-english-translator:fix-updt-var-name-us-brit-trans-project-indx-js?expand=1

14. The head repository is: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/boilerplate-project-american-british-english-translator/compare/main...1jds:boilerplate-project-american-british-english-translator:fix-updt-var-name-us-brit-trans-project-indx-js?expand=1

15. I complete the form and press “Create pull request”

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you!