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Fork it while you can!


It is more important to clone it, so that you have a local copy on your PC

forking is just a gesture, especially for obviously hot repos. a takedown of 1 can takedown all the forks


Yes. I cannot understand the point of those people who kept "forking" repositories on GitHub, but don't do any development on them. They have a long list of untouched forked repositories, like Linux kernel, Apache, nginx, ..., and makes it particularly difficult for me to find the repos of their original works.

Even as a "backup", it's pointless, because it's all Copy-on-Write, there's no backup.

As if they never learned to use the "Star" button to bookmark...

Personally, I don't fork any repos unless I'm working on a derived program, or working for a patch, even so, I'll delete my forked repos as soon as the patches are accepted (if it's a one-time contribution), so these forked repos won't spam my own list.


I wish github had a bookmarks feature. Currently most people star when stars should be a "I used this and its good" rather than "Seems interesting, should take a look later"


I know it's an obvious suggestion, but 'GitHub' folder of browser bookmarks? Not clear to me what value it would add as a GH feature, just interface clutter IMO.




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