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How to Create and Maintain a Private Collaboration Fork

This guide explains how to create a private, standalone copy of a public repository for collaboration with external partners.

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Part 1: Initial Repository Setup (One-Time Action)

First, create a new, empty, private repository on GitHub. This will be your collaboration space. Let's call it collab-XYZ.

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Smart Conda Environment Manager for developing LeRobot projects

Creates/activates numbered conda environments (e.g. 1009lerobot) with:

• Automatic Python 3.10 setup
• FFmpeg installation (conda-forge)
• Smart pip extras handling (dev/test + custom)
• Time tracking and warnings
• Help system (--help) Usage: lerobot-env [extras...] lerobot-env --help

Note

Tested only in macOS 15.4 24E248 arm64 on 2025-APR-29

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import argparse
import statistics
import time
import sys
import cv2


def parse_arguments():
    """Parse command-line arguments."""
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(

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repositories:
  ament/ament_cmake:
    type: git
    url: https://github.com/ament/ament_cmake.git
    version: 4c630d4c36af09e8a426ef5c1fbc8850f656019c
  ament/ament_index:
    type: git
    url: https://github.com/ament/ament_index.git
    version: 1ef3b4c92b54bf0530efb01424b65856b44a25ef
  ament/ament_lint: