I see this so often, but I don’t understand it. Some people just fork a huge amount of repos and never commit anything to them. What’s the point? Are they trying to pad their profile for potential employers or what?
It just clutters your active repos. Personally, I just remove forks once my PR gets merged upstream. And I only fork when I’m ready to push a commit.
Is there something I’m missing?
I’ve forked a couple projects that I just wanted a copy of in case the upstream is deleted.
I’m not sure what you mean, but if someone deletes their GitHub repo, there’s no way to fork it. If you forked it before they deleted it, then your fork remains.
They might not have always been empty. Could be that there was a branch for a PR that got merged, so the branch was deleted.
I fork the version I deploy in prod across multiple machines. I find it makes my life easier and I never need to learn any cli other than git clone and git pull.
If it’s licensed well then it means the user has a backup of the project if it ever gets removed or they change the license. I don’t know if that’s the actual reason though, just a guess
In my case, it’s a TODO list. But often, life gets in between and I forget.
