Add a setting to disable forking and clones/downloading ZIPs of special repos

[GhostOf0days]

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Special repos (public repos that are username/username and used as an about me) often contain private information that the user may want to remove from their repo later. For this reason, you should be able to disable forking, clones, and downloading ZIPs of special repos as they contain private information the user may want to remove later. Also, an option to disable viewing the raw code of the ReadMe for people who aren't the owners. However, these settings should be made as options that can be disabled as not everyone uses the special repos as about me's and sometimes just put stuff like dynamic games in them.

[dannz510]

[GhostOf0days]

Github does not allow you to manage the forking policy of special repos. Special repos are not organization repos. Special repos are those public repos that are public and are the username of someone. For example, example/example, where the first is the repo owner and the second is the repo name. They usually serve as about me's. You can not manage this.

[uncenter]

First of all, don't put any private information that you want to remove in a public repository, especially one that is displayed on your profile! It's a public Git repository, same as any other one - no reason to prevent any of that from GitHub's end. Second, you can always delete the repository and make a new one to remove the history...

[uncenter]

... I already have that set up. I use it, and I know how it works. The article you linked me to literally says:

It's no different than any other public repository.

[GhostOf0days]

Yes. However, my point is those repos are often used as about me's. They often contain information that should not be forkable in case the user decides to make it private at a later point, effectively removing their 'about me' repo.

[uncenter]

If you have such a large online presence that people are constantly forking your about me repository, then you should be very careful about what you put in it in the first place! I'm also confused why this is such an important concern for you seeing you just have music and your name in your README and 0 forks.

[GhostOf0days]

I'm going to end the convo here as I don't want to continue it. However, someone did fork it. It's more so a privacy matter if you later decide to remove information about yourself from your public Github account.

[uncenter]

I'm all for privacy. I think being able to remove private information like that is important but unfortunately you'll probably just have to be more careful in the future and try to reach out to anyone who has forked it and request them to delete it.