I’ve forked a couple projects that I just wanted a copy of in case the upstream is deleted.
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this is my reasoning also
Can't you clone a previous build? Actual noob here, serious question
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.
I see, thanks
They might not have always been empty. Could be that there was a branch for a PR that got merged, so the branch was deleted.
If it’s licensed well then it means the user has a backup of the project if it ever gets removed or they change the license. I don’t know if that’s the actual reason though, just a guess
I fork the version I deploy in prod across multiple machines. I find it makes my life easier and I never need to learn any cli other than git clone and git pull.
In my case, it's a TODO list. But often, life gets in between and I forget.
Tbf forks should be separated in the repo view on GitHub from repos you've created