Public to Private Repo

Recently wanted to clone this repository which is public so that I could store my private configurations while maintaining upstream. Github does not allow the creation of private forks for public repositories.

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

Here are my notes for this task:

Create a bare clone of the repository. (This is temporary and will be removed so just do it wherever.)
```
git clone --bare [email protected]:eduardoboucas/staticman.git
```
Create a new private repository on Github and name it staticman.
Mirror-push your bare clone to your new staticman repository.

Replace <your_username> with your actual Github username in the url below.
```
cd staticman.git
git push --mirror [email protected]:<your_username>/staticman.git
```
Remove the temporary local repository you created in step 1.
```
cd ..
rm -rf staticman.git
```
You can now clone your staticman repository on your machine (in my case in the apis folder).
```
cd ~/apis
git clone [email protected]:<your_username>/staticman.git
```
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]:eduardoboucas/staticman.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>/staticman.git (fetch)
origin	[email protected]:<your_username>/staticman.git (push)
upstream	[email protected]:eduardoboucas/staticman.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/master
```
And solve the conflicts if any

Public to Private Repo

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