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Prakash P
Prakash P

Reputation: 4066

How to give pull request to a github private repository which is now public

I am working in a project hosted in GitHub which was private. I forked it and contributed in it by raising pull request.

Now that private project is public. My forked repository was locked up for a while which I fixed by making it public(more info here).

The problem is: Now I don't see the message forked from some_repository.

Because of this, I can not give pull request to that parent repository.

How to solve this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 86

Answers (1)

Vy Do
Vy Do

Reputation: 52746

If a private repository is made public, each of its private forks is turned into a standalone private repository and becomes the parent of its own new repository network.

Source: https://help.github.com/articles/what-happens-to-forks-when-a-repository-is-deleted-or-changes-visibility/#changing-a-private-repository-to-a-public-repository

My solution:

(1) Fork from original repository

(2) Use compare and merge software (for example WinMerge or Beyond Compare 4) then merge to your folk.

(3) Send pull request from your fork to parent repository, then merge code.

(4) Delete your own (parent) repository

Upvotes: 1

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