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Re:Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on ... by fullstackchris on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @05:53PM (#41062591)
To be fair, in the true git sense, if a "fork" is really just a branch, deleting the original completely would also mean deleting every branch (fork) completely

obviously not a fan of this policy though

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Re:Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on ... by bogota on Thursday July 25, 2024 @02:22AM (#41065310)
But a fork is really not a branch. it’s a copy of a repo with one remote pointing at the original on github but that doesn’t need to happen.
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