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@Nikitf777 Nikitf777 commented Jun 22, 2025

It's useful when you're viewing the README in a fork, mirror or locally.
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Ivorforce commented Jun 22, 2025

GitHub already links back to the original repository in forks:

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Nikitf777 commented Jun 22, 2025

It only works with the forks, that are created using the GitHub forks functionality. If it's a hard fork, or a fork in another git hosting service, it doesn't work. For example here I migrated the repo to my Gitea:
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And of course you don't see any links locally.
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timothyqiu commented Jun 23, 2025

And of course you don't see any links locally.

You can use the command git remote -v to show the url (if you cloned the repository via HTTPS).
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