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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by knownothing on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:03PM (#17223942)
Um, have you actually tried doing anything about this? https://help.github.com/articles/searching-in-forks/
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by blt on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:21PM (#17224045)
> You will not be able to search the code in a fork that has less stars than its parent.

... but since it's allowed if the fork has more stars, I guess they're just trying to save compute cost. Seems like a bad place to scrimp to me.

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