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> I just fork it, fix it, and forget it. When you say you like to just fork it, do you mean that you're publishing the fixes you make somewhere, or just keepin
by no_protocol 10y ago
> I just fork it, fix it, and forget it.
When you say you like to just fork it, do you mean that you're publishing the fixes you make somewhere, or just keeping them to yourself?
I am very interested in any attempts at some kind of fork aggregator (see [0] and [1]) that can help interested parties see what patches have landed in each fork, rather than just which ones have their own users.
[0]http://forked.yannick.io/jquery/jquery http://forked.yannick.io/jquery/jquery
[1]http://www.toddsifleet.com/projects/github-forks#jquery/jquery http://www.toddsifleet.com/projects/github-forks#jquery/jque...
- dogma1138 10y ago>When you say you like to just fork it, do you mean that you're publishing the fixes you make somewhere, or just keeping them to yourself Really depends, some maintainers and authors really dislike forking, they also tend to be the ones hardest to deal with on pull requests.
- voltagex_ 10y agoMost of my projects are forked by people who never make any changes to the fork. I'm not sure if this is some kind of spam or people trying to make GitHub profiles look better to recruiters.
- vacri 10y agoA fork = code under the user's control. A fork doesn't go away if the original source does.
- afarrell 10y agoThese types of forks are asirational guitars bought by people who want to spend the time but never find it.
- reubano 10y agoAgreed. For me, forking is like super starring. Ive starred over 1000 repos, but hv forked < 100.
- chriswarbo 10y agoGitHub's UI makes unintentional forking quite easy. When it shows a button like "Fork: 25", clicking the "25" will show the forks (which I often want), clicking "Fork" will perform a fork (which I usually don't want).