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From: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7983204/having-a-private-branch-of-a-public-repo-on-github

  • Mirror your repo
    • Create a bare clone of the repository
    git clone --bare https://github.com/user/old-repository.git
    • Mirror-push to the new repository (must already in the remote! Create one up front!)
    cd old-repository.git`
git push --mirror [email protected]:user/new-repository.git
    • Remove the temporary local repository you created earlier
    cd ..
rm -rf old-repository.git
  • Make the mirrored repo a private one on GitHub.
  • Clone the private repo to your machine
  • Add a remote to your public repo (git remote add public [email protected]:user/old-repository)
  • Push branches with commits intended for your public repo to that new public remote.
    • make sure you don't accidentally commit private-only code!
  • You can bring in changes to your public repo using 'git fetch public' and then merge them locally and push to your private repo (origin remote)
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