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Detach the fork and turn it into a standalone repository

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Hi,

The last commit of original repository is 4 years ago and this branch is 312 commits ahead. Why do you stay has fork ?

Because :

In open source projects, forks are often used to iterate on ideas or changes before they are offered back to the upstream repository for everyone to benefit from.

I understand that the base of the work is not your, but if you keep the LICENSE pointed to sparksuite/simplemde-markdown-editor, you don’t not have to keep fork state.

Some fonctionnality are disabled in fork, like search in code, see : https://github.com/Ionaru/easy-markdown-editor/search?q=toolbar&type=Code

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See : https://stackoverflow.com/a/27718433/2226755 -> https://help.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/why-are-my-contributions-not-showing-up-on-my-profile#commit-was-made-in-a-fork

And About forks :

If you want to create a new repository from the contents of an existing repository but don’t want to merge your changes upstream in the future, you can duplicate the repository or, if the repository is a template, use the repository as a template. For more information, see “Duplicating a repository” and “Creating a repository from a template”.

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 4 years ago
  • Reactions:1
  • Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

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Ionarucommented, Dec 9, 2021

Fork is now detached! 🎉

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Ionarucommented, Jan 28, 2021

That’s a good idea.

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