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Technical Fork

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Definition​

Technical Fork is a metric defined by CHAOSS, see CHAOSS Metrics - Technical Fork for the detailed definition of this metric.

A technical fork is a distributed version control copy of a project. The number of technical forks indicates the number of copies of a project on the same code development platform.

Fork from the same developer will be double counted. For example, if a developer has deleted the forked repository and then fork again, the latter fork will also be counted in the total.

Data​

Link: https://oss.x-lab.info/open_digger/{platform}/{owner}/{repo}/technical_fork.json

To get the data for a certain repository, replace {platform}, {owner} and {repo} with the actual name. Here is an example.

Code​

Here's the implementation code.

CodePen Demo​