Comment by platinium

On the plus side, this disastrous calamity by Github really made me try out Gitlab and in the process, I will now set-up a second remote on my repo's:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11690709/can-a-project-h...

  Quoted:
  "Try adding a remote called "github" instead:

   $ git remote add github    
   https://github.com/Company_Name/repository_name.git

   # push master to github
   $ git push github master

   # Push my-branch to github and set it to track github/my-branch
   $ git push -u github my-branch

   # Make some existing branch track github instead of origin
   $ git branch --set-upstream other-branch github/other-branch"

Actually, I don't know why I pay for Github private repo's.. I might as well set-up two origins, one at Gitlab and one at Bitbucket, for all my privates. Then keep Github as a public front-facing portal.