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A better way to browse forks. If today you see that a major repository has a fork with a lot of commits, you cannot know without looking through THEM ALL if th
by fiatjaf 11y ago
A better way to browse forks.
If today you see that a major repository has a fork with a lot of commits, you cannot know without looking through THEM ALL if they are just typo fixes or if the fork is really changing/improving things over the main repo.
- danieltillett 11y agoThis. The amount of time I have wasted looking in forks is staggering.
- knappe 11y ago100% agree. I wish there was some way to also promote a fork, other than changing the readme to point to the new fork, which also means mucking up the history of the project.
- z1mm32m4n 11y agoOne way that has served me as being a pretty good metric of what's what when it comes to forks looking at the number of stars the parent and child repos have. If a fork has started to usurp it's parent, it generally has a fair deal of its own stars.