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josephcsible
on Jan 31, 2023
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Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if y...
Never use the fork feature on private repos. Instead, clone the repo locally, create a fresh GitHub repo, and push your local clone manually to that. Doing so will protect you from this attack.
theossuary
on Jan 31, 2023
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It'd be nice to be able to manually specify an upstream for a repo, that's the main benefit of forking in the UI.
hashtag-til
on Jan 31, 2023
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Does that limit submitting PRs to the original repo somehow?
kevincox
on Feb 1, 2023
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Apparently yes. You can't submit PRs to a repo outside of the "fork network". (IIUC these all share a single Git repo under the hood)
kitkat_new
on Feb 1, 2023
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you need to make a fork for that, however you could add that one as a second upstream repo
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