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Yeah, stars/watches don't seem like a huge deal to me - but the fork part is pretty bad. It breaks the upstream connection between repos for all the forks.
by horsawlarway 2y ago
Yeah, stars/watches don't seem like a huge deal to me - but the fork part is pretty bad. It breaks the upstream connection between repos for all the forks.
- xeraa 2y agoGitHub support can (and currently is) restore all of that. The fork network should already be fixed for Elasticsearch again [I work for Elastic]
- dmezzetti 2y agoGood to know. There was a similarly popular project that didn't get this benefit (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31033758 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31033758).
- xeraa 2y ago8 years ago someone accidentally deleted the elasticsearch repository (thinking it was their private fork ). Back then everything was restored, so I hope we get there again this time too
- dmezzetti 2y agoI hope so too. I'm the maintainer of a reasonably popular project (~9K stars) and it's certainly a nightmare scenario given that I consider the stars to give it credibility in a crowded space.