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Lovely forks

An addon to help you notice notable forks of a Github project.

Sometimes on Github, projects are abandoned by the original authors and the development continues on a fork. However, the original repository is often not updated to let new-comers see that. I have many times wasted effort on making a pull-request or installing old buggy versions of projects when the community had already moved to a fork.

To make matters worse, the old projects usually have higher search-engine traffic and a lot more stars than the forks. This makes the forks even harder to find. This addon tries to remedy that by adding a subscript under the name of the repository on the Github page of all projects with a link to the most notable fork (i.e. the fork with the most stars), if such a fork exists.

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The original project (Slate) was last updated more than two years ago while the fork is actively maintained. The original project (Tipsy) was last updated more than three years ago while the fork is actively maintained. vim-fugitive integrates Git with vim, vim-mercenary (a fork) integrates Hg.