A fork on GitHub is no fork

Re:A fork on GitHub is no fork by AdmiralAsshat on Friday March 16, 2018 @11:21AM (#16601260)

Does this apply to public repos?

I have a close friend who past away a few months ago, and wanted to try to find some way to preserve all of his GH repos for his wife and children. I've locally cloned all of them, but the prospect that GH might delete all of his stuff if he fails to login for a certain amount of time or something is deeply concerning.

I don't suppose GH has some kind of memorial/preservation mode the way Facebook does?

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Re:A fork on GitHub is no fork by icebraining on Friday March 16, 2018 @02:13PM (#16602720)

"Inactive accounts may be renamed or removed by GitHub staff at their discretion."

https://help.github.com/articles/name-squatting-policy/

There are a few blog posts of people who got GH support to release the names of inactive accounts, though it's not clear if those accounts had any repos at all.

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Re:A fork on GitHub is no fork by knownothing on Friday March 16, 2018 @12:25PM (#16601701)

> Every user account and organization on GitHub can have unlimited collaborators on any number of public repositories.

From: https://help.github.com/articles/github-s-billing-plans/

So if your friend's repositories are all public no payment is required.

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Re:A fork on GitHub is no fork by Avamander on Saturday March 17, 2018 @07:28AM (#16606506)

You can ask for a fork to be unlinked politely. Done that for a few times to re-enable search and etc.

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