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Even if you forked on GitHub, you can ask the staff to "detach" or "extract" your fork from the existing network. Detaching only un-forks your repo, whereas ex
by 3JPLW 12y ago
Even if you forked on GitHub, you can ask the staff to "detach" or "extract" your fork from the existing network. Detaching only un-forks your repo, whereas extracting makes your fork the new root and preserves any sub-forks thereof. They will happily do it upon request.
- jarin 12y agoOoh, thanks for posting this. I have a project that I forked so I could use the base code from it, but it really doesn't make sense as a fork and confuses people. (It's a deployment plugin, and my fork just installs a different piece of software than the original)