i’ve never really understood the people on github who click the fork button and then never do anything with it
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Felix Singerreplied to Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian: last edited by
@ariadne I think it's their way to say that they like the project. They also might think that they are supporting the project by doing this.
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Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:replied to Felix Singer last edited by
@migy yeah probably. but i wish they wouldn’t because it makes hunting for interesting patches in the fork graph more complicated
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Graham Sutherland / Polynomialreplied to Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian: last edited by
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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:replied to Graham Sutherland / Polynomial last edited by
I have a tool that recursively finds all forks for a repository. Probably wouldn't be difficult to extend to do this.
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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:replied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@gsuberland @ariadne @migy If someone is willing to make a web front end for it I will write the backend code required for this.
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Rich Felkerreplied to Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian: last edited by
@ariadne Maybe they do it as a server side clone to guard against deletion or destructive changes to original?
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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:replied to Rich Felker last edited by
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Rich Felkerreplied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:replied to Rich Felker last edited by
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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:replied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
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grawityreplied to Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian: last edited by
@ariadne I don't know why people still do it *today*, but like... I still remember how GitHub originally had a 'fork' button but didn't have a 'star' button for a good several years and it was kind of Accepted to fork a repo for the purpose of making its number go up. maybe some people still do so out of habit
on a second thought, I've grown a habit of hoarding clones of git repos and other stuff after projects got deleted, cvs servers shut down, etc.
also got a few repos in ~/src where I was planning to do something but then either I got distracted and left it sit in tmux for two months, or just didn't git push, or a "meh fuck it I wrote the patch but haven't got the energy to deal with the maintainer right now" kind of situation, etc.
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rsalzreplied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@ryanc @gsuberland @ariadne @migy is your tool available? I'm more interested in text output like url/commits as CSV for example
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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:replied to rsalz last edited by
@rsalz @gsuberland @ariadne @migy no, it was somewhat one-off for sending takedown requests to the software heritage foundation douchebags
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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:replied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@rsalz @gsuberland @ariadne @migy I can clean it up and post it though. It's pretty trivial.
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