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saagarjha on April 18, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: I've been writing TILs for 5 years

> When you delete a public repository, one of the existing public forks is chosen to be the new parent repository. All other repositories are forked off of this new parent and subsequent pull requests go to this new parent.

Yikes, is this a random process?

hhsuey on April 18, 2020 [–]

Apparently the oldest fork wins, or the author of the repo can decide. https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/86769/which-fork...

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