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Ionaru / easy-markdown-editor

EasyMDE: A simple, beautiful, and embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor. Delightful editing for beginners and experts alike. Features built-in autosaving and spell checking.
https://stackblitz.com/edit/easymde
MIT License
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Detach the fork and turn it into a standalone repository #128

Closed A-312 closed 2 years ago

A-312 commented 5 years ago

Hi,

The last commit of original repository is 4 years ago and this branch is 312 commits ahead. Why do you stay has fork ?

Because :

In open source projects, forks are often used to iterate on ideas or changes before they are offered back to the upstream repository for everyone to benefit from.

I understand that the base of the work is not your, but if you keep the LICENSE pointed to sparksuite/simplemde-markdown-editor, you don't not have to keep fork state.

Some fonctionnality are disabled in fork, like search in code, see : https://github.com/Ionaru/easy-markdown-editor/search?q=toolbar&type=Code

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See : https://stackoverflow.com/a/27718433/2226755 -> https://help.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/why-are-my-contributions-not-showing-up-on-my-profile#commit-was-made-in-a-fork

And About forks :

If you want to create a new repository from the contents of an existing repository but don't want to merge your changes upstream in the future, you can duplicate the repository or, if the repository is a template, use the repository as a template. For more information, see "Duplicating a repository" and "Creating a repository from a template".

Ionaru commented 5 years ago

There is one more reason for this being a fork: exposure.

People searching for javascript markdown editors will often find SimpleMDE simply because it's the biggest, with this repo being the largest fork, people often find it by looking at the network graph.

Unless there are some really strong arguements for detaching from SimpleMDE, I would rather keep it the way it is.

A-312 commented 5 years ago

There is one more reason for this being a fork: exposure.

People searching for javascript markdown editors will often find SimpleMDE simply because it's the biggest, with this repo being the largest fork, people often find it by looking at the network graph.

The first thing I do is watching issue to see issue like this one : https://github.com/sparksuite/simplemde-markdown-editor/issues/740

Unless there are some really strong arguements for detaching from SimpleMDE, I would rather keep it the way it is.

I tought that "Search in code" is strong one.

A-312 commented 4 years ago

There is one more reason for this being a fork: exposure.

If you keep another repository fork for sparksuite/simplemde-markdown-editor on github, you can add remote on easymde to your fork. This one will appear like a fork with all of your commit.

sn3p commented 3 years ago

I found myself in the same position yesterday, not able to search the repo on GitHub.

Could detach and keep the fork with a notice and link to the detached repo. Just a thought.

Ionaru commented 3 years ago

That's a good idea.

Ionaru commented 2 years ago

Fork is now detached! 🎉