GitHub templates and Compass templates

[Ken Young]

I am looking to combine the use of the Compass template features combined with GitHub's repository template feature.   

In my testing, it seems like the template feature  will fork the Github template repository, instead of making a copy of the repository as I would expect.  In my situation, we don't want to fork the repo.

Is there any additional configuration that can be done in the templates to not fork the repositories?  Thx