No, the child forks only know about ChildRepo
, and ChildRepo
will still be around if it is a public repo.
See "GitHub help: Deleting a repository"
Deleting a private repository also deletes all of its forks.
Deleting a public repository will not.
However, asking GitHub support for confirmation is a good idea.
That might affect any pending pull request from ChildRepo
to ParentRepo
though.