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I'm wondering if it's at least possible to remove it by contacting GitHub support? |
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It would be great if it were possible to remove it. I have a repository that was generated from a template years ago, but it does not resemble the template anymore at all, making the "generated from" kinda misleading and a lie about the current situation. |
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The templates should help people to spin up their project quickly. However, templates are relatively barebone and therefore should not dangle around forever if at all, unlike forks that add true informational value. At first, the template tag link may be useful by providing the developer a shortcut to access the template documentation, but after the project is set up, the template tag is just extra clutter. Personally I feel the tag makes the project look a bit "cheap". Currently, to avoid this feel and look, I need to copy the template files manually to the new project, thus nullifying the purpose of the Template feature in the first place. Please GitHub, just make it optional for the repo maintainer to show the tag, just in the way the maintainer can currently hide Issues, Wiki, and Projects. |
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+1 |
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+1 |
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It's a bit of an annoying workaround, but I was able to get rid of the "generated from" tag directly from the Github web UI. (Note: same as the solution in the stack overflow post, this will not preserve PRs, issues, etc.) Steps:
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That is an interesting workaround, and you're right, kind-of annoying too. lol This wouldn't be too bad for an individual dev, but not really good for most orgs with multiple devs. A+ for creativity. |
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What a big brain! Thanks! |
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You've saved my whole career. Big Thanks! |
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This is what IQ140 looks like |
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I found another way, although maybe not perfect. If the template repo is your own, you can delete the template repo first, so that this tag will disappear. |
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The current effective solution can be found here： https://stackoverflow.com/a/76436754/16346493 |
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I just don't get why removing this tag still isn't an option. |
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They have a bunch of issues like this att GitHub - AKA small fixes that would add a lot of daily value to thousands of users, but seems ignored since years. I wonder if someone at GitHub reads these community discussions |
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More on this it also reflected in API, so if you use terraform to manage GitHub repository you will get it in state of it. I think it's not minor and should be done. And not seat here years |
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I don't understand why anyone would ever use a template if the repository will be permanently branded with the template name..? |
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HELLOOOOO GITHUB |
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"You have reached the voicemail of GitHub, please leave a message after the tone. There is a non zero chance that we will acknowledge receipt" |
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Jesus yes |
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For now, a workaround is to create a new repository, then change your origin in your original repo locally to point to the new one. then, once you push, you'll keep all the commit history and everything but the "generated from" tag will be gone. Github still needs to add this simple feature though so we don't have to jump through these silly hoops to get things set up how we want. |
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I suppose you lose stars, issues, PRs, by doing that, right? |
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Unfortunately, yes -- that's a good call out. |
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The other awkward solution is to make the Repo you made it a template from Private, then it won't show to anyone who doesn't have access to the OG template. Or delete the OG template rofl. Make a template of the template, then make the repo from the template template, then delete the template template. Am I sane? |
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No. |
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Give users the option to remove the "Generated from <source_repo>" from the repo from the settings k.
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