On Tue, 8 Apr 2025, 14:27 sirjofri via 9fans, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Keep in mind that what GitHub promotes with its forks is not the way git > is intended to be used. You're supposed to just clone the repo and push it > to another remote. You can do that with GitHub or any other git provider, > or put it on any server you like or own. > > I often see people forking my repos and never doing any changes. Seems to > be a social feature at this point, like some kinda repost or something. > This is for many reasons, e.g. the fork mechanism can easily reflect the relationships between people and orgs, and people can contribute to upstream without having to establish access rights first. It does happen that people create forks and never push anything to the public. It may also serve as a collection thing. Bookmarks are one thing, repo collections another. There are so many aspects to this. :-) ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T2a9f9f77bdb28cec-Ma0b87abe63aaa66655a997ad Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
