[kelahcim]

I feel your pain. I have dropped from 250 to zero for exact same reason ;) The order of magnitude is for sure different, but still, hitting the ground without any warning was a surprise.

A workaround here is to:

- leave the repo public - move it somewhere else (to private repo) - reinit original repo with empty content - once ready, bring back the old repo to previous remote

This way your stars are preserved.