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What is the point of empty forks? (self.git)

submitted 1 year ago by sirdorius to c/git

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I see this so often, but I don't understand it. Some people just fork a huge amount of repos and never commit anything to them. What's the point? Are they trying to pad their profile for potential employers or what?

It just clutters your active repos. Personally, I just remove forks once my PR gets merged upstream. And I only fork when I'm ready to push a commit.

Is there something I'm missing?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve forked a couple projects that I just wanted a copy of in case the upstream is deleted.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

this is my reasoning also

[–] thisisnotgoingwell 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't you clone a previous build? Actual noob here, serious question

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not sure what you mean, but if someone deletes their GitHub repo, there’s no way to fork it. If you forked it before they deleted it, then your fork remains.

[–] thisisnotgoingwell 2 points 1 year ago

I see, thanks