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		TeMPOraL on May 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What is a fork, and how GitHub changed its meaning Forks and PRs are UI sugar on top of Git operations, so it's technically open. That said, merging in a PR is an operation that touches 2 repos, with different user privileges, so I feel it would be hard (though not impossible) to make the UI work with multiple services, without adding extra cross-service auth headache.

the_duke on May 24, 2019 | [–]

That's only true for private repos though, for open source repos it would work just fine.

saagarjha on May 24, 2019 | [–]

> it's technically open

Yes, but in a practical sense it ties your operation to GitHub.

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