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One of the benefits of open-source is that you can ensure a copy of the source exists, in the event that something makes the original source disappear.

• hhsuey 6y ago
  Gotcha. So the motivating factor was for individuals to get a copy for themselves, perhaps even use it as a form of bookmark overloaded as a backup feature. They'll need to keep pulling if they want to keep it up to date, but I suppose that could be automated.
  • HereBeBeasties 6y ago
    https://probot.github.io/apps/pull/ https://probot.github.io/apps/pull/ to keep forks up to date automatically.
    • hhsuey 6y ago
      TIL...
    • RMPR 6y ago
      This is pretty good, now I can ditch my little script #!/bin/sh git pull upstream master git push origin master