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The PredSim repository is public and Github does not allow the creation of private forks for public repositories. If you want to have a private version that can still fetch updates from the public repository, you can use this workaround.

Workflow below is adapted from here.

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

For this repository the Git Bash 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 https://github.com/KULeuvenNeuromechanics/PredSim.git

  2. Create a new private repository on Github and name it PredSim_private.

  3. Mirror-push your bare clone to your new PredSim_private repository.

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

    cd PredSim.git
git push --mirror https://github.com/<your_username>/PredSim_private.git

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

    cd ..
rm -rf PredSim.git

  5. You can now clone your PredSim_private repository on your machine (for example in the C:/GBW_MyPrograms folder).

    cd C:/GBW_MyPrograms
git clone https://github.com/<your_username>/PredSim_private.git

  6. If you want, add the original repo as remote to fetch (potential) future changes.

    cd PredSim_private
git remote add upstream https://github.com/KULeuvenNeuromechanics/PredSim.git

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

    origin	https://github.com/<your_username>/PredSim_private.git (fetch)
origin	https://github.com/<your_username>/PredSim_private.git (push)
upstream	https://github.com/KULeuvenNeuromechanics/PredSim_private.git (fetch)
upstream	https://github.com/KULeuvenNeuromechanics/PredSim_private.git (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 merge on top of your work.

    git fetch upstream
git checkout local_branch_to_update
git merge upstream/upstream_branch_to_update_from

    And solve the conflicts if any. You can also opt to do rebase instead of a merge, but this rewrites the git history. For more details on the difference between merge and rebase, see e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16666089/whats-the-difference-between-Git-merge-and-git-rebase

  7. If you use GitHub Desktop, you have to add PredSim_private to the list of repositories:

  • Current repository
  • Add
  • Add existing repository...
  • Local path: C:/GBW_MyPrograms/PredSim_private (Use the same folder you selected in step 5.)
  • Add repository
  1. Your fork might have a different default branch. Set master or your own branch as default.