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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
by 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 agoThat's why you should always keep clones of your repositories hosted by a third party.
- asdkhadsj 8y agoYea 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 agoIt 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 agoIt 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 agoYou'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.