Why do some people fork repos but make no changes to them? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by aloofPenguin@lemmy.world 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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[-] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You can simply git clone on your system and push it to whatever other remote you want. It should not be associated to the origin in that way.

this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2025

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