Comment by saagarjha
5 years ago
One of the downsides to GitHub is that it stores a lot of state that Git cannot capture, and is at the mercy of project maintainers to continue existing unaltered.
5 years ago
One of the downsides to GitHub is that it stores a lot of state that Git cannot capture, and is at the mercy of project maintainers to continue existing unaltered.
But forks prevent that, right?
No, forks don’t include issues or pull requests, among other things. Another problem is with “canonical links”: people will link to comments on the “original” project, which are at the mercy of maintainers to not be edited or deleted.