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Re:Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on ... by rkagerer on Thursday July 25, 2024 @01:09AM (#41064918)
Am I the only one who finds this conceptually confusing?
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Re:Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on ... by rocqua on Thursday July 25, 2024 @02:34AM (#41065367)
Nope, me too. The whole Repo network thing is not User facing at all. It is an internal thing at GitHub to allow easier pull requests between repo's. But it isn't a concept git knows, and it doesn't affect GitHub users at all except for this one weird thing.
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Re:Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on ... by brazzledazzle on Thursday July 25, 2024 @04:53AM (#41066379)
I may be recalling incorrectly but I seem to remember it having some storage deduplication benefits on the backend.
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Re:Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on ... by tedmiston on Monday July 29, 2024 @03:48PM (#41103161)
> Nope, me too. The whole Repo network thing is not User facing at all.

There are some user-facing parts: You can find the fork network and some related bits under repo insights. (The UX is not great.)

https://github.com/apache/airflow/forks?include=active&page=...

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