>You can enable issues on forked repo, and any forked repo may receive PRs. Their point was that issues in the new repo are completely separate from issues in

>You can enable issues on forked repo, and any forked repo may receive PRs. Their point was that issues in the new repo are completely separate from issues in the old repo. A new issue created in the new repo will be issue 1, and to browse the old repo's issues you have to navigate to the old repo. If the old repo is deleted all those issues will also be deleted and history will be lost. That's why they mentioned the workaround of using the Github API to export the old repo's issues and re-import them into the new one, which would not be needed if issues were git objects and thus trivially copied into all forks.