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WSDG: Add a warning about private forks. 

It's not obvious that making a GitLab fork private will disassociate it
from the upstream repository, and it seems to have tripped up a couple
of people. Add a warning to the "Creating Merge Requests" section.
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@ -387,6 +387,11 @@ For the steps below we’ll pretend that your username is “henry.perry”.
. Make sure you have a clone of the main repository as described in <<ChSrcGit>>.
. Create your own personal fork of the Wireshark project by https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/forking_workflow.html[pressing the “Fork” button] at {wireshark-gitlab-project-url}.
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WARNING: If you want to make merge requests you must keep your fork public.
Making it private will disassociate it from the main Wireshark repository.
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. Add a remote for your personal repository.
The main repository remote is named “upstream”, so we'll name this one “downstream”.