Thanx everyone for the helpful replies! Yanick,
>> What I'm >> wondering is, couldn't I just fork the gitpan repo for Data::Random[2] >> and have that become my repo? Obviously I would never plan on merging >> it back, but that shouldn't matter, I don't think. > > That would be the simplest way to go. That you would never merge back > is no problem: anybody cloning or forking your project will only see > the original commits as part of your repo history, and no-one will > ever be the wiser. Okay, that's the main thing I was wondering. I didn't know if somehow GitHub would consider my repo to be a fork forever-more and that might somehow have negative side-effects. I didn't think so, but I figured it couldn't hurt to ask. > Or, if you want to clone the gitpan repo the easy way: > > $ git cpan-import --gitpan Data::Random Interesting ... are there advantages to that method over just forking gitpan? -- Buddy
