Comment by yencabulator
2 years ago
Don't blame Git for Github decisions.
Github chooses to store all "Github forks" in the same repository, and allow accessing things in that repository even when they are not reachable by the refs in the namespace of one "fork". That is purely a Github decision.
They could have split forks off into new repos, but then they wouldn’t be forks, in the repository sense. It was never hard to just copy a repo instead of forking it. The UX just leads people into holding it wrong.