Daniel Micay on Twitter: "@egyp7 @MisterCh0c @github Forks can't be changed by the owner of the project they were based on but you can have access to a private repository taken away, and in that case you can lose access to your fork, but I'm not sure exactly what happens to the repository (deleted vs. simply made inaccessible)." / Twitter

I don't think I've ever heard of this happening. Any GitHub experts know the circumstances under which all forks of a repo would be deleted?

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Jun 4, 2019

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I am certainly no github expert - but I know that i've seen people post like, PoCs of various hax, then i fork the repo, then they get skittish and take the repo down, and my fork goes away too. so now i download zip vs fork.

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I don't think that can happen with public repositories, including repositories that are public and then made private after being forked. Private repositories can be set up with weird restrictions though.

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Oh, wow, just particular files in a repo? What did the git history look like?

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Forks can't be changed by the owner of the project they were based on but you can have access to a private repository taken away, and in that case you can lose access to your fork, but I'm not sure exactly what happens to the repository (deleted vs. simply made inaccessible).

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It sounds like the tweet you're replying to is talking about something like a DMCA takedown notice or sensitive data removal. They treat forks as separate things, but someone submitting the request can include them: help.github.com/en/articles/gi help.github.com/en/articles/gu

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I've dealt with a situation where someone had a dispute with their former over the copyright / licensing of code that was released as open source and incorporated into the Android Open Source Project, and they'd repeatedly get all copies taken down. github.com/github/dmca/se

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