forked projects with different name not related with base repository are not being considered

[Ginxo]

We are considering forked projects:

• the ones related with the base repository (appears on the forked project list)
• the ones with the same name as the base repository

Still pending:

-the ones with the different name as the base repository and not related with it

@jsoref https://github.com/jsoref/ suggested a very interesting approach we should at least consider https://github.community/t/github-api-getting-fork-project-for-a-specific-user/185441/3?u=ginxo

[Ginxo]

wondering whether we should consider to treat this case... 🤔

[mareknovotny]

wasn't this already fixed in #156 ?

[jsoref]

Dunno :). Sadly GitHub didn't leave enough breadcrumbs for me to be able to recall what I suggested... -- it's likely my suggestion was to check to see if two commits were reachable for the same sha across the fork world (with the same content...), as generally github has treated connected repositories as a single repository. (Amusingly, github's current search engine currently treats identical individual documents from unrelated repositories as equivalent -- this is discernible today because the counts don't treat them as distinct when a search hits each of them...)

I will say that it's possible for a user to have:

• a repository with the same name as your repository that isn't related
• two (or presumably more, although I haven't managed to do this yet...) forks of your repository with other names (!!) -- please don't ask how, but I've managed to do it a couple of times of late, so apparently the naive assumption that I (and probably everyone else) had that there'd be at most one related fork per user is well, just that ...

[mareknovotny]

so @jsoref to summarize you still have this issue with a repository not being considered, right?

[jsoref]

I don't think I use this action. I'm here because I use lots of repositories and was involved in GitHub's prototype community. I offered input based on a question and someone filed this issue and tagged me.

It should be easy enough to test to confirm...

[mareknovotny]

ok, thanks for clarifying