The repository for the assignment is public and Github does not allow the creation of private forks for public repositories.

The correct way of creating a private frok by duplicating the repo is documented here.

For this assignment the commands are:

1. Create a bare clone of the repository. (This is temporary and will be removed so just do it wherever.)

git clone --bare [email protected]:usi-systems/easytrace.git

There are several ways to clone a repository from github. Similar from other providers, such as bitbucket, gitlab, etc.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protocols

Mostly, we use

• http
• ssh

You may need to configure a proxy server if you're having trouble cloning or fetching from a remote repository or getting an error like unable to access '...' Couldn't resolve host '...'.

Consider something like: