Ahh, yes, back in pre git time, thanks Christophe for the explanation.

Regards,

-- 
Laurent

2009/6/26 Christophe Grand <christo...@cgrand.net>

> 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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