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Why do some people fork repos but make no changes to them? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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I've seen some projects on GitHub (howdy being one of them that came to mind) where there are forks, but when I check the forks out they are either unchanged, or are behind by a few commits. I was wondering why this would happen. It couldn't be for archival purposes, could it?

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[–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah, makes sense. The cynical part of my mind also led me to your 2nd explanation. :)

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