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Re:What is a fork, and how GitHub changed its meaning by TeMPOraL on Friday May 24, 2019 @02:28PM (#20004085)
Forks and PRs are UI sugar on top of Git operations, so it's technically open. That said, merging in a PR is an operation that touches 2 repos, with different user privileges, so I feel it would be hard (though not impossible) to make the UI work with multiple services, without adding extra cross-service auth headache.
Re:What is a fork, and how GitHub changed its meaning by the_duke on Friday May 24, 2019 @02:34PM (#20004134)
That's only true for private repos though, for open source repos it would work just fine.
Re:What is a fork, and how GitHub changed its meaning by saagarjha on Friday May 24, 2019 @03:20PM (#20004527)
> it's technically open

Yes, but in a practical sense it ties your operation to GitHub.