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I'm not sure why people are defending Github on this issue, what if the original repo was a template or something, and your thousands of lines of code is gone b

by Vecr 4y ago

I'm not sure why people are defending Github on this issue, what if the original repo was a template or something, and your thousands of lines of code is gone because the original template repo removed you as a contributor. If I copy something, I expect where I copied it from to have exactly zero bearing on what happens to my copy. If they have a problem they can serve legal documents, giving everyone time to figure something out with zero data loss.

theturtletalks 4y ago
Guess I’ll be cloning repos locally and then pushing instead of forking.
- kevincox 4y ago
  Apparently this removes you ability to open Pull Requests.
andybak 4y ago
I agree completely. But at the same time - who doesn't have local copies of anything they care about? What are they thinking!?
- sshine 4y ago
  You’d be surprised at how many use GirHub as their remote code backup platform. Having private file system backups is a question of culture, and a lot don’t have it.
  - hgsgm 4y ago
    If no one has a copy of the software, does it really exist?
rezonant 4y ago
This only applies to private repositories. Do not put templates up as private repositories, and do not use forks when consuming templates. That is not what forks are for.
- account42 4y ago
  It's irrelevant what they are for. Reality means that things like this get misused but deleting data without warning is still not ok.
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