It still doesn't make sense in that use case. He could have cloned it to his local machine and still had access to the code. Had he done that he could have pu

It still doesn't make sense in that use case. He could have cloned it to his local machine and still had access to the code. Had he done that he could have pushed it back to github as a completely new repository thereby creating a legitimate fork. It's a silly requirement from github.