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Comparing a forked repo on GitHub open wrong repo

See original GitHub issue

If you fork a repo, then attempt to Branch > Compare on GitHub or Create Pull Request on that repo, the browser will open the original repo instead.

forked repo https://github.com/tierninho/map

original repo https://github.com/ng2-ui/map

URLS that are opened are: https://github.com/ng2-ui/map/compare/master...tierninho:test

https://github.com/ng2-ui/map/compare/master...tierninho:test?expand=1

tested in 1.0.5-beta0, mac

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:6 (5 by maintainers)

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joshabercommented, Oct 20, 2017

This is kinda dependent on https://github.com/desktop/desktop/issues/2364, as currently we don’t know anything about a forked repository’s parent.

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shiftkeycommented, Nov 20, 2017

Closing this out as the behaviour is all driven by GitHub The Website rather than the app - see this comment for the redirects - and I think this is a pattern we want to encourage.

If anyone else has feelings on this, just shout and we can revisit.