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How is denying a pull request the same as banning someone from forking your project? Don't you see undue power bestowed on some people here? It's OK for admins
by mankash666 11y ago
How is denying a pull request the same as banning someone from forking your project? Don't you see undue power bestowed on some people here?
It's OK for admins to deny pull requests, but not OK for them to deny the right to fork the said open source project. Kind of takes the open out of the open source by doing so.
- arjie 11y agoIt's an administrative detail. Just use the HTTPS end point. That requires no auth for read-only access to public repos.
- Sanddancer 11y agoThey can fork it, they just have been disinvited from using github's fork button to do so. There's nothing blocking them from downloading the source, etc.
- krapp 11y agoNo, because that only applies to forking a project within the Github UI. Nothing is stopping anyone from cloning a project and pushing it to their repository.