Re: ANN: Awesome-Ada

[Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>]

Jere <jhb.chat@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 11:13:59 AM UTC-5, Olivier Henley wrote:
>> Done.
>> 
>> Next time, try directly on github.
>> 
>> Fabien Chouteau:
>> 
>> For README's and other markdown files, it is easier to make the
>> modification and pull requests directly on GitHub website.
>> 
>> When looking at a file:
>> https://github.com/ohenley/awesome-ada/blob/master/README.md
>> 
>> You have a pen icon to clone and edit the file.
>
> I saw that, but when I hovered over the tooltip, it said it would fork 
> the repo.  I wasn't really wanting to fork it necessarily.  I'm glad to 
> provide updates here and there, but don't want to maintain a separate
> fork of the repo.  Or is the fork more of a "temporary" fork that goes
> away after making the change?

A fork is (or acts like) a full copy (clone) of a repo.  It doesn't
go away until and unless you choose to delete it.  GitHub probably
has infrastructure to make forking a relatively cheap operation,
not creating a full copy of the repo -- though you can create such
a copy on your own system by cloning the forked repo.

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