Reply to post: Forking right! ?

More than half of GitHub is duplicate code, researchers find

Notas Badoff

Forking right! ?

I see some project's code that's wrong and needs maybe three lines changed. To submit a pull request I have to fork the whole project, change those three lines, update, push, generate pull request, yada-yada. I can't actually delete/erase my fork, so those files stay 'duplicated', right?

I'm just not quite getting the assertion that all that duplication is duplication so much as Github's equivalent to softlinks.

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