> Without github's "fork" branches we would most likely still see repositories initialized from plain source dumps I doubt that. Git inherently allows pushing

> Without github's "fork" branches we would most likely still see repositories initialized from plain source dumps I doubt that. Git inherently allows pushing and pulling from anywhere. You can easily create a new repo on GH and push your branch(es) from your local clone there. Creating a new clean repo is more work. See how Linux works.