Push from shallow clone to GitHub

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Is it possible to configure a repository in GitHub to accept pushes from shallow repositories? I’ve managed to do this with bare repositories on servers that I have access to by setting the git config option receive.shallowUpdate to true. However, I haven’t been able to find anything in the settings for my GitHub repositories that exposes this option.

Ideally, I would like to push from a shallow repository to an existing GitHub repository. But if there’s a procedure that would let me use a local shallow clone and then add it as a new GitHub repository, that would work as well.

For additional context, I would like to use git bundles to transfer commits from an internal/private repository to a public GitHub repository, but I don’t want the entire history of the private repository to be public. Currently, I either rebase or apply the recent commits from the private repo onto a branch that is pushed to the public one. But it would be nice to establish consistent commit ids (without disrupting references to the current public repository).

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