Don’t polute your github with forks

Open source is great, I love that within a short space of time I can:

• Find a bug
• Fork the repo
• Fix the bug
• Submit a pull-request
• Have Travis say it’s all ok
• Have it merged (ok, not always quickly)
• Go on with my day

However before long my github get’s full of forks. One solution is to keep deleting them when I have had the pull-request accepted however if I find myself submitting pull-requests semi-regularly then this becomes annoying.

Solution?

Create a github organisation called something obvious like ‘danielchatfield-pull-requests’ or ‘danielchatfield-forks’ or ‘danielchatfield-fixes’ and fork all the open source projects to that organization. Everything will still work as before except when someone (you?) looks at your github profile they will see your projects only.

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