Hi Laurent,

kevinoneill repos were mirrors of google-code's SVN.

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> OK, I thought that the graph of cloned repositories was oriented, but it
> seems I was wrong :)
>
> Still, I don't see the "fork of" link, so maybe the person that created its
> clone did not do it via the fork functionality of github, but rather did it
> from its [desk/lap]top, and pushed his repo on his personal space at github
> ?
>
> More specifically, I'm talking about
> http://github.com/kevinoneill/clojure-contrib/tree/master , where I don't
> see any "fork of" link.
>
> Can you explain that to me ?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Laurent
>
> 2009/6/26 Mike Hinchey <hinche...@gmail.com>
>
> On the Source tab, the "fork of" link tells you - that is, Rich's don't
>> have that line, so it is the root.  On the Network Members tab, it shows a
>> tree of the forks, with Rich at the root.
>>
>> You can browse all of the data in a repository through the website, so you
>> shouldn't have to clone.  And you only need to Fork (a github concept, not
>> git), if you want to push something different to your own public clone.
>>
>> Ultimately, what matters to GIT is the sha1 commit keys, which tell you a
>> commit/tree is identical to another or not.  I don't think you can tell
>> about clones other than by looking at the sha1s or the Fork graphs that
>> github draws.  The forks graph only tells you about the clones that github
>> knows about.
>>
>> And as Alex says, being the root doesn't really mean master,
>> authoritative, or best.
>>
>> -Mike
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> >
>


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