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Create a private fork of a public repository
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The repository for the assignments is public and Github does not allow the creation of private forks for public repositories.

The offical docs for creating a private fork by duplicating the repo are here.

For this class's assignments 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]:jakobottar/2022fall-image-processing.git

  2. Create a new private repository on Github and name it 2022fall-image-processing.

    If you are unable to create a private repo, you can request unlimited private repos as a student by getting the student pack from Github.

  3. Mirror-push your bare clone to your new 2022fall-image-processing repository.

    Replace <your_username> with your actual Github username in the url below.

    cd 2022fall-image-processing.git
git push --mirror [email protected]:<your_username>/2022fall-image-processing.git

  4. Remove the temporary local repository you created in step 1.

    cd ..
rm -rf 2022fall-image-processing.git

  5. You can now clone your 2022fall-image-processing repository on your machine (in my case in the code folder).

    cd ~/code
git clone [email protected]:<your_username>/2022fall-image-processing.git

  6. If you want, add the original repo as remote to fetch (potential) future changes. Make sure you also disable push on the remote (as you are not allowed to push to it anyway).

    git remote add upstream [email protected]:jakobottar/2022fall-image-processing.git
git remote set-url --push upstream DISABLE

    You can list all your remotes with git remote -v. You should see:

    origin	[email protected]:<your_username>/2022fall-image-processing.git (fetch)
origin	[email protected]:<your_username>/2022fall-image-processing.git (push)
upstream	[email protected]:usi-systems/2022fall-image-processing.git (fetch)
upstream	DISABLE (push)

    When you push, do so on origin with git push origin.

    When you want to pull changes from upstream you can just fetch the remote and rebase on top of your work.

      git fetch upstream
  git rebase upstream/main

    And solve the conflicts if any appear.

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