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		fullstackchris on July 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anyone can access deleted and private repository d... To be fair, in the true git sense, if a "fork" is really just a branch, deleting the original completely would also mean deleting every branch (fork) completely obviously not a fan of this policy though

bogota on July 25, 2024 [–]

But a fork is really not a branch. it’s a copy of a repo with one remote pointing at the original on github but that doesn’t need to happen.

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