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The user mentioned in the DCMA notice has a second repository containing what appears to be SnapChat source code, which hasn't been taken down. It's been forke

The user mentioned in the DCMA notice has a second repository containing what appears to be SnapChat source code, which hasn't been taken down. It's been forked 49 times so far.

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netsharc 8y ago
But forking on Github is useless, if the parent project gets memory-holed, your fork will disappear too. But git is a distributed version control system, so git clone before the takedown would help.
- philipov 8y ago
  We can't know how many people cloned it, but we can guess that most of the people who forked it also cloned it.
- joshribakoff 8y ago
  Off topic but that would be pretty bad if you forked code and did significant work for years only for it to randomly disappear overnight
  - metalliqaz 8y ago
    That's why you should always keep clones of your repositories hosted by a third party.
  - asdkhadsj 8y ago
    Yea I didn't know that this would happen. If I fork a repo and plan on maintaining it myself, I guess I have to fully clone it, removing the fork.
    - rpeden 8y ago
      It doesn't happen: https://help.github.com/articles/what-happens-to-forks-when-a-repository-is-deleted-or-changes-visibility/ https://help.github.com/articles/what-happens-to-forks-when-... If you fork a public repo and the original is deleted, your fork survives.
      - mook 8y ago
        It has previously happened, in the special case of repos GitHub removed (like DMCAed ones). That is a different case from the original repo owner removing it voluntarily.
  - delinka 8y ago
    You're not doing work for years that lives solely on GitHub - it's cloned onto your local storage and the GitHub deletion does not affect your local copy.
- rpeden 8y ago
  GitHub might go and delete all the forks in this case, but that's not what happens in general. Normally on GitHub, if a public repo is deleted or made private, all of the forks survive [1]. I'm not trying to nitpick or be a jerk; I just wanted to point this out because I think that forking in general on GitHub is less useless than you imply. [1] https://help.github.com/articles/what-happens-to-forks-when-a-repository-is-deleted-or-changes-visibility/ https://help.github.com/articles/what-happens-to-forks-when-...

The user mentioned in the DCMA notice has a second repository containing what appears to be SnapChat source code, which hasn't been taken down. It's been forked 49 times so far.

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netsharc 8y ago

But forking on Github is useless, if the parent project gets memory-holed, your fork will disappear too. But git is a distributed version control system, so git clone before the takedown would help.

philipov 8y ago
We can't know how many people cloned it, but we can guess that most of the people who forked it also cloned it.
joshribakoff 8y ago
Off topic but that would be pretty bad if you forked code and did significant work for years only for it to randomly disappear overnight
- metalliqaz 8y ago
  That's why you should always keep clones of your repositories hosted by a third party.
- asdkhadsj 8y ago
  Yea I didn't know that this would happen. If I fork a repo and plan on maintaining it myself, I guess I have to fully clone it, removing the fork.
  - rpeden 8y ago
    It doesn't happen: https://help.github.com/articles/what-happens-to-forks-when-a-repository-is-deleted-or-changes-visibility/ https://help.github.com/articles/what-happens-to-forks-when-... If you fork a public repo and the original is deleted, your fork survives.
    - mook 8y ago
      It has previously happened, in the special case of repos GitHub removed (like DMCAed ones). That is a different case from the original repo owner removing it voluntarily.
- delinka 8y ago
  You're not doing work for years that lives solely on GitHub - it's cloned onto your local storage and the GitHub deletion does not affect your local copy.
rpeden 8y ago
GitHub might go and delete all the forks in this case, but that's not what happens in general. Normally on GitHub, if a public repo is deleted or made private, all of the forks survive [1]. I'm not trying to nitpick or be a jerk; I just wanted to point this out because I think that forking in general on GitHub is less useless than you imply. [1] https://help.github.com/articles/what-happens-to-forks-when-a-repository-is-deleted-or-changes-visibility/ https://help.github.com/articles/what-happens-to-forks-when-...