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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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[–] 2 points 1 year ago

It’s been that way for many years, I’d say at least 4 or 5? Long before all this ai nonsense.

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