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ricardobeat on Nov 26, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub forking has one big flaw

just add a note to the Readme pointing to the new fork that took over?

zbowling on Nov 26, 2011 [–]

I thought the same thing. You can switch the "root" if you coordinate with the root repo owner and GitHub support. Often those projects are dead or the maintainer doesn't respond.

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