[markive]

How does this work for private repositories?

[markive]

I suppose as a Contributor you would just fork the private repo. I can't think of anything you would lose with this approach.

[dotancohen]

I believe that you would lose the Issues and Wiki. Neither are stored in the .git repo in Github.

[RyJones]

It’s up to the person that created the repo if forking is allowed

[xmprt]

If I can see the code and clone the repo then regardless of whether Github allows me to automatically fork it, I can fork it myself just be adding another remote.

[emilfihlman]

If you can see the code you can fork it.