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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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[–] 18 points 1 year ago

Fork repo, make local changes intending to push to fork for PR, never push anything. Very common.

Also, SO MANY SITES have the button that says "Fork me on GitHub!" that is often wonder if people think it's something that it isn't.

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