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I've noticed a lot of people fork repos & don't touch them at all Not sure if it's their way of starring, or they want to make their profile look good to recru

by __s 2y ago

I've noticed a lot of people fork repos & don't touch them at all Not sure if it's their way of starring, or they want to make their profile look good to recruiters, or they want to create a copy they control for use as a dependency

notRobot 2y ago
It's the last one for me often
DavidPiper 2y ago
I fork instead of Star when I want to make sure a thing can't suddenly disappear off GitHub when I want to come back to it at a later date.
codetrotter 2y ago
I used to click the fork button on repos that I found especially interesting. Sort of a way of “super liking” a repo while also making sure a copy of it exists that I can come back to later. Eventually I found that having a bunch of forked repos that I wasn’t touching and which became stale quickly only cluttered my GitHub profile, so I removed them from my profile. Instead what I do now when I find repos that I like is I run a command on my server that adds the repo to a queue for cloning and then the server clones the repo without me having to keep the terminal open and without having to keep a specific tmux session or anything either. It works great. The queue system I use is called task spooler https://viric.name/soft/ts/ https://viric.name/soft/ts/ It’s available in packages on most systems. For example: - https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/ts https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/ts - https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/task-spooler https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/task-spooler On some systems it is installed as a binary named “ts” but on some other systems they install it as “tsp” to avoid conflicting with a different binary also called “ts”. So on my systems I use it as tsp when installed as such and if it’s installed as “ts” then I create an alias named “tsp” that I use, so that I always use it as “tsp” regardless of what it’s installed as on the system.
shiomiru 2y ago
It is indeed often used as an amplified star. I often see "fork and star this repo if you find it useful" used similarly to "like and subscribe" on YouTube.

by __s 2y ago

notRobot 2y ago

It's the last one for me often

DavidPiper 2y ago

I fork instead of Star when I want to make sure a thing can't suddenly disappear off GitHub when I want to come back to it at a later date.

codetrotter 2y ago

I used to click the fork button on repos that I found especially interesting. Sort of a way of “super liking” a repo while also making sure a copy of it exists that I can come back to later. Eventually I found that having a bunch of forked repos that I wasn’t touching and which became stale quickly only cluttered my GitHub profile, so I removed them from my profile. Instead what I do now when I find repos that I like is I run a command on my server that adds the repo to a queue for cloning and then the server clones the repo without me having to keep the terminal open and without having to keep a specific tmux session or anything either. It works great. The queue system I use is called task spooler https://viric.name/soft/ts/ https://viric.name/soft/ts/ It’s available in packages on most systems. For example: - https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/ts https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/ts - https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/task-spooler https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/task-spooler On some systems it is installed as a binary named “ts” but on some other systems they install it as “tsp” to avoid conflicting with a different binary also called “ts”. So on my systems I use it as tsp when installed as such and if it’s installed as “ts” then I create an alias named “tsp” that I use, so that I always use it as “tsp” regardless of what it’s installed as on the system.

shiomiru 2y ago

It is indeed often used as an amplified star. I often see "fork and star this repo if you find it useful" used similarly to "like and subscribe" on YouTube.