While studying Fullstack development with Integrify's bootcamp, I have created a couple of private forks from repositories from the different assignments I had to do to learn. This is all great until the moment you actually need to showcase your portfolio and what you have done during this intense but great learning. I have faced the issue of making public repository of private fork.

Here are the commands:

1. Create an empty public repository

2. Open Terminal

3. 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/exampleuser/private_repo.git

4. Mirror-push to the new repository $ cd private_repo.git $ git push --mirror https://github.com/yourname/public_repo.git

5. Remove the temporary local repository you created earlier $ cd .. $ rm -rf private_repo.git

Here you are with your former private fork/repository in your new public one ready to be showcased!

Hope this explanation helps you as much as it helps me!