Web: a repository cannot be forked #174

closed cmc opened this on 2026-09-06 15:13 UTC · milestone web-parity

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cmc 2026-09-06 15:13 UTC

repo fork is CLI-only and has no row in the wiki's Parity matrix at all, so it does not read as outstanding work anywhere.

It is the missing half of #168. That gave the merge request form a source picker offering branches of any fork the viewer can push to, but the fork itself still has to be made from a terminal, so the browser path for a contributor without write access stops at the first step: fork, push a branch, propose.

Web edits land in a branch of a repository you can write, so with a fork made in the browser the whole flow — fork, edit a file, open the merge request — is available to someone who has never installed the CLI.

Needs a control on the repository header, the visibility and quota rules the command already applies, and a Repositories row in the matrix.

Ref #168.

closed by commit e88e46e41d by cmc: control, web, wiki: fork a repository from the browser

2026-09-06 17:44 UTC