These repositories were deleted, but can't be restored by you.

[bittnkr]

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Hello.
I had a repository that I created sometime ago and I deleted it by mistake. After that I noticed that it has some good code yet. But now I can't restore it because I'm receiving this error message. It has some forks from it, but it is not a fork from other How can I restore it?

[satishrathodofficial2]

The error usually means the repository is no longer in GitHub’s recoverable state. GitHub can only restore deleted repositories for up to 90 days. Forks don’t allow recovery of the original repo — they only preserve the code.

If the repo was deleted less than 90 days ago, you’ll need to contact GitHub Support and they can restore it manually.
If it’s older than 90 days, you’ll have to recreate the repo and copy the code from one of the forks.

[andersoncarli]

In fact, I tried to restored it in the same day I deleted. But I dont know why gh dont allow me to restore it. It was a 50 star repo that was getting traction but I thogth that I was deleting a fork. I really don't knot what to do.

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