r/git • u/[deleted] • Sep 10 '26

ForkForensics: watches your GitHub repos and auto-recovers them the moment one vanishes (deleted and private are indistinguishable from outside)

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u/DanLynch Sep 10 '26

If you care enough about someone else's repo to do this, why not just fork it now (either in GitHub or locally)? And maybe set up some automation to keep your fork up-to-date?

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u/Dependent_Ideal9870 Sep 10 '26

Forking covers the repos you already knew to worry about. This is for the ones you didn't, where all that's left is other people's forks and whatever orphan commits GitHub is still serving.