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,

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-...