• hedgehog@ttrpg.network
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    3 months ago

    Yes, but only in very limited circumstances. If you:

    1. fork a private repo with commit A into another private repo
    2. add commit B in your fork
    3. someone makes the original repo public
    4. You add commit C to the still private fork

    then commits A and B are publicly visible, but commit C is not.

    Per the linked Github docs:

    If a public repository is made private, its public forks are split off into a new network.

    Modifying the above situation to start with a public repo:

    1. fork a public repository that has commit A
    2. make commit B in your fork
    3. You delete your fork

    Commit B remains visible.

    A version of this where step 3 is to take the fork private isn’t feasible because you can’t take a fork private - you have to duplicate the repo. And duplicated repos aren’t part of the same repository network in the way that forks are, so the same situation wouldn’t apply.