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Why do some people fork repos but make no changes to them? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by aloofPenguin@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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I've seen some projects on GitHub (howdy being one of them that came to mind) where there are forks, but when I check the forks out they are either unchanged, or are behind by a few commits. I was wondering why this would happen. It couldn't be for archival purposes, could it?

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[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This reminds me of a legacy Rails 3.2 app that used a fork of the official Ruby on Rails only for one commit that backported some one-liner bug fix. This was at an old job in the Rails 6 days, getting it on the latest official version was definitely an adventure (no unit tests + tons of spaghetti code + a dash of currency conversions stored as Postgres floats).