Hide forks of public projects when profile is set to private

[jhogberg]

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When setting one's profile to private, there is currently no way to hide a fork of a public repository. While I'm aware that you can delete a fork once you are done contributing (e.g. in between PRs), that doesn't help at all for regular contributors to a project: as long as you keep sending PRs, the repository will stay on your profile page.

Please consider adding a setting to hide forks of public repositories from the profile page (either all of them or a selection).

Another variant, for which I found a related discussion, is to allow making private forks of public repositories that can only be used for submitting pull requests (that is, it cannot be browsed).

[gopal-jogi]

GitHub doesn't provide a direct way to selectively hide forks of public repositories on your profile. You may consider creating a separate account for personal contributions. The idea of private forks for pull requests only is interesting but currently not implemented.