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Why do some people fork repos but make no changes to them? by aloofPenguin in c/programming@programming.dev
[-] aloofPenguin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

Why do some people fork repos but make no changes to them? by aloofPenguin in c/programming@programming.dev
[-] aloofPenguin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

I'd do a PR. Although I would understand forking if the project maintainers wouldn't merge a PR. (or create an issue (for the fix/ addition) if the README says that it's an option)

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Why do some people fork repos but make no changes to them? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week 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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