4. the commit will be visible at the original repo URL with your SHA (https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/<SHA>), with no indication whatsoever that this is coming from a different repo
I have reported this problem to GitHub a while ago and they replied to me that this is a well known feature of the repo "network".
1. clone https://github.com/torvalds/linux into https://github.com/<YOURNAME>/linux.
2. push a fake "torvalds" commit into your repo.
3. check the SHA of the the commit that you made.
4. the commit will be visible at the original repo URL with your SHA (https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/<SHA>), with no indication whatsoever that this is coming from a different repo
I have reported this problem to GitHub a while ago and they replied to me that this is a well known feature of the repo "network".