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What is the point of empty forks? (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/git@programming.dev
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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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[–] 34 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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