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joevandyk
on Nov 26, 2011
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GitHub forking has one big flaw
Look at the Network activity. It shows you the level and dates of commits of all the forked repositories.
bryanlarsen
on Nov 27, 2011
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This doesn't always help as much as you would think it should. Often times I've seen a fork with a lot of recent commits, but it's actually a bunch of pseudo-private changes against an old version.
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