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Creating private fork of public repo
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  1. Create empty private repo
  2. Bare clone a public repo, and mirror push it to the private repo.
git clone --bare https://github.com/exampleuser/public_repo.git
cd public_repo.git
git push --mirror https://github.com/yourname/private_repo.git
  1. Register remote repository with public repositoryPermalink
git clone https://github.com/yourname/private_repo.git
cd private_repo
git remote add public https://github.com/exampleuser/public_repo.git

Fetching from public repo

git pull public master
git push origin master
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