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I'm wondering if it's at least possible to remove it by contacting GitHub support? |
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sadly, it isn't. |
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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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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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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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So far, as Github seems not in a hurry with addressing that specific point, the simple preventive steps still working well is again:
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This is not enough for some templates that contain post-processing via GitHub Actions, like https://github.com/cpp-best-practices/cmake_template. |
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+1 Funny that if you ask Github Copilot, it hallucinates that there's an option to detach from template in Repo Settings |
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why is this still an issue GitHub.... |
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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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