19 Sep
2013
19 Sep
'13
5:49 p.m.
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:35:45 +0200
IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig(a)iem.at> wrote:
(it became weirder in github times, as i now can see
how many people
(not really "many") people create a "public fork" without *ever*
doing
anything to it...what is that about?)
Just a quick response.
The "fork" on github is AFAIK intended for something else. Not for
"stealing" and rebranding an entire project but for maintaining a working copy
which then can ask for pull requests upstream, conveniently managed by github and made
possible by the de-central git philosophy.
Also: The fork button there is easy to click by accident and it is inconvenient to remove
such a fork from your account. So sometimes forks appear and do nothing, just because
someone clicked the wrong button.
Nils