> On 11 Oct 2018, at 14:21, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote:
> 
> So this is more a problem for repos that have lived a long time already on 
> github?
> It guess it should impede someone using their account as a staging point for 
> migrating from Smalltalkhub projects to a community github repo.
> 
> Although an alternate way to consider this is that the forwarding submerges a 
> problem to be forgotten until it causes a mystery problem later on.
> Forking the repo back into your account and deleting the "master" branch 
> might be fail-fast way to expose and fix issues.
> (emphasis on the "might" - I'm not sure of all the trade-offs)
> 
> cheers -ben
> 
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 at 14:36, Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name 
> <mailto:norb...@hartl.name>> wrote:
> Well, you can but then the access is not forwarded anymore to the repo you‘ve 
> transferred. Transferring and forking makes everyone link something they 
> maybe don‘t want. Transferring and creating a new one with the same name 
> brings all request to the former to your new repo which is unlikely to be 
> wanted.

Yes, but you can :)
And if someone points to you copy, he will still have it (just with the 
possibility of not fetching an updated version). 

But he can always fix that by adding the new remote and pulling from there :)

Esteban 

> 
> Norbert
> 
> > Am 11.10.2018 um 07:49 schrieb Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com 
> > <mailto:esteba...@gmail.com>>:
> > 
> > Why not?
> > 
> >> On 10 Oct 2018, at 17:55, Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name 
> >> <mailto:norb...@hartl.name>> wrote:
> >> 
> >> No, that you cannot
> >> 
> >>> Am 10.10.2018 um 16:36 schrieb Sean P. DeNigris <s...@clipperadams.com 
> >>> <mailto:s...@clipperadams.com>>:
> >>> 
> >>> NorbertHartl wrote
> >>>> The rest is provided by github as long as you do not create a new
> >>>> repository with the same name.
> >>> 
> >>> Can you still fork the transferred repo in your personal account? I wasn't
> >>> sure, which is why I didn't handle Artefact this way.
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> -----
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Sean
> >>> --
> >>> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html 
> >>> <http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html>
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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