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Here's a question - to you and anyone else who cares to respond: I like to treat my github in a certain manner, and maybe I should change that. Currently, wha
by cr0sh 10y ago
Here's a question - to you and anyone else who cares to respond:
I like to treat my github in a certain manner, and maybe I should change that.
Currently, what I have on my github is some repos that are all mine - but I also have a bunch more repos that are forks of other repos. I do this (fork other repos) because I like the repo, and some of them might be really old (that is, they haven't been changes in months or years - low commit frequency or such). So - a fork for me is kinda like "save it for later", in case the original repo goes away. Plus, IIRC, if the original repo does get updated, I'll be notified and I can pull down the changes into my repo (my only other option would be to download a zip of the master branch - but then if it did change, I wouldn't know).
Should I not do this? I mean, those forked repos are clearly labeled as forks from the original repo, and I have made it clear in the past that "only these repos are mine exclusively" - but should I not do this? Should I instead have a separate github just for those kinds of forks, and keep my personal repo for only my own stuff?
I'm just wondering how confusing this really is for prospective employers or others - I don't want them thinking that repos x/y/z are mine when they aren't, and miss the repos that actually are mine. It's too bad that there isn't an option to segregate this better on github, and only show your repos by default. Maybe I need to review my settings...
- brogrammernot 10y agoWouldn't change a thing. No sane interviewer would think you're claiming your fork of a repo is your own code. Not to mention it's mostly used as a talking point for me, so if I did make that mistake I'd be fine when you said it was a fork. That's pretty interesting to me as well, so it opens up an avenue to have a conversation about why you liked that project, why you want to emulate it etc