[Toybox] GitHub Apps - Repo Lockdown · GitHub

[enh]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 12:21 AM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On 8/18/20 12:17 PM, enh wrote:
> >     But closing it, I have to navigate to the website which I'm not
> always logged
> >     into even when I am online. (Why github-generated .patch files don't
> have the
> >     "closes #xxx" magic signature you were telling me about, I couldn't
> tell you.
> >     They didn't anticipate this workflow, I guess? "I have assumptions
> about how
> >     this hammer will be used, and it breaks if you don't do that" =
> cheap hammer.)
> >
> > (the whole "you need to fork the project to send a patch" model just
> baffles me.
>
> It fluffs out their metrics. If you count forks as projects, then the
> "number of
> projects on github" looks enormous.
>

that would certainly fit the usual rule of "if something doesn't make sense
technically, think about the economics"...


> > i don't think i could have come up with a more alien way of contributing
> to a
> > project than github's if i'd actually set out to try to do so. just the
> fact
> > that it litters the internet with abandoned "forks" [that aren't usually
> really
> > forks in the traditional sense] and leaves you struggling to understand
> which
> > [if any] is the "real" project...)
>
> You can delete the fork as soon as you send the pull request (before it's
> even
> merged) but they don't explain that.
>

in today's edition of "can someone point me at the damn button in github's
awful ui?"... how/where do i do that? even looking for it know it must
exist i can't find that. neither on my home page (where i see my "forks" on
the left), nor on the page for one of the "forks" itself, nor on the "your
repositories" page.

oh, here it is:
https://docs.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/deleting-a-repository

man, they really don't want to make that easy. that they make no
distinction between a "real" repository and a so-called "fork" really does
support your theory :-(


> Rob
>
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