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cchance | 5 months ago

And that's why people need to clone these repos from big companies when their first released.

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anonymousiam|5 months ago

Cloning the repo isn't enough, because Microsoft/Github still control the platform, and can delete all copies they have control over.

dceddia|5 months ago

Cloning the repo (running git clone on your computer) is enough because it makes a local copy. Forking merely makes a copy under your account on GitHub though which is not going to survive if they go on a deleting spree.