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References

This method has been discussed in the following sources:

https://gist.github.com/0xjac/85097472043b697ab57ba1b1c7530274

https://medium.com/@bilalbayasut/github-how-to-make-a-fork-of-public-repository-private-6ee8cacaf9d3

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10065526/github-how-to-make-a-fork-of-public-repository-private/30352360#30352360

Steps

In the following steps, this repository refers to git@github.com:NTU-ALComLab/LSV-PA.git

  1. Import this repository and set the new repository private.
  • Name the new repository whatever you like. In this example we name it LSV-PA-private.
  1. Clone the private repository to your local machine.
~$ git clone git@github.com:<your-username>/LSV-PA-private.git
  1. Add this repository as a remote in order to update your private repository.
~$ cd LSV-PA-private
~/LSV-PA-private$ git remote add upstream git@github.com:NTU-ALComLab/LSV-PA.git

List all of your remotes by git remote -v.

origin	git@github.com:<your-username>/LSV-PA-private.git (fetch)
origin	git@github.com:<your-username>/LSV-PA-private.git (push)
upstream	git@github.com:NTU-ALComLab/LSV-PA.git (fetch)
upstream	git@github.com:NTU-ALComLab/LSV-PA.git (push)

Now you can update your private repository by git fetch upstream and git merge upstream/master. Note that you don't have the permission to push to this repository. You can disable it by git remote set-url --push upstream DISABLE.

There is no need to create another branch in your private repository. In the following we assume your code is developed in master.

  1. To submit your code, first you have to create a branch named with your student ID number in your public fork.
~$ git clone git@github.com:<your-username>/LSV-PA.git LSV-PA-public-fork
~$ cd LSV-PA-public-fork
~/LSV-PA-public-fork$ git checkout -b <your-student-id>

Second, pull the code from the master branch of your private repository to the branch named with your student ID number.

~/LSV-PA-public-fork$ git remote add private git@github.com:<your-username>/LSV-PA-private.git
~/LSV-PA-public-fork$ git pull private master

Third, push your code to the public fork.

~/LSV-PA-public-fork$ git push --set-upstream origin <your-student-id>

Fourth, send a pull request to <branch> of this repository via GitHub UI. For PA0, <branch> is master, for PA1 and PA2, <branch> is <your-student-id>. To repeat the process, you only need git pull private master and git push.