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Deleting a private repository When you delete a private repository, all of its private forks are also deleted. Deleting a public repository When you delete a
by hhsuey 6y ago
Deleting a private repository
When you delete a private repository, all of its private forks are also deleted.
Deleting a public repository
When you delete a public repository, one of the existing public forks is chosen to be the new parent repository. All other repositories are forked off of this new parent and subsequent pull requests go to this new parent.
- saagarjha 6y ago> When you delete a public repository, one of the existing public forks is chosen to be the new parent repository. All other repositories are forked off of this new parent and subsequent pull requests go to this new parent. Yikes, is this a random process?
- hhsuey 6y agoApparently the oldest fork wins, or the author of the repo can decide. https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/86769/which-fork-is-marked-as-a-main-repository-when-the-original-one-is-deleted-in-gi https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/86769/which-fork...