Is this what I am supposed to see after forking?

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Is this what I am supposed to see after forking? #35

Open Niagara1000 opened 3 years ago

Niagara1000 commented 3 years ago

My questions:

Q1 : I see that so many people's names are listed along with mine in the "Contributors" list. I would assume it would be just mine, since this is my fork and I didn't collaborate with anyone on the forked repo. Is this a prob?

Q2 : Did I accidentally make changes to the author's repo? lol idk if I did something wrong..

lecy commented 3 years ago

If you fork a GitHub repo it retains links back to the original. The list of people are contributors to the main Beautiful Jekyll site.

If you want to sever the ties with the original repo you would clone it instead of forking it.

If you don't issue a pull request then none of your changes will be sent back to the author's original repo. If you do issue a pull request the author still needs to accept the changes, so you would not accidentally over-write anything.

ecking commented 3 years ago

I"M SO GLAD someone else asked.

I pretty much had a panic attack yesterday when I committed my changes to the config file and I thought I updated the original lol. I got scared seeing all those people's faces! haha