What is the point of empty forks?
What is the point of empty forks?
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?
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@sirdorius Some use it to have a list of interesting or depending projects. Instead of a list of URLs or local clones.
Why not use stars in this case?
@sirdorius I only can speak for myself. I used stars (at GitHub) to shoe that I know and appreciate the project. Like a Star at Twitter or Like at YouTube, etc. I used Forks at GitHub to have a list of projects I'm interested in.
I nowadays would use a list of URLs, e.g. bookmarks.