Which also shows the right way to delete a private repo if you want people to be able to keep their forks: If a private repository is made public, each of its

Which also shows the right way to delete a private repo if you want people to be able to keep their forks: If a private repository is made public, each of its private forks is turned into a standalone private repository and becomes the upstream of its own new repository network. Private forks are never automatically made public because they could contain sensitive commits that shouldn't be exposed publicly. If a private repository is made public and then deleted, its private forks will continue to exist as standalone private repositories in separate networks. But I agree this is confusing.