How do I fork a project at a given point? (lemmy.world)

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I'm thinking on writing some tutorial on de-sloppifying some open-source projects, with I'm likely ending up at least starting some of them.

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[-] zener_diode@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You should be able to just fork it normally, then reset (or is it revert?) to the commit you want.

this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2026

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