Lately, I jumped into an e-commerce UI template from Algolia. According to GitHub, I can either fork the repository or use it as a template. The difference seems to be that a template is not made for fetching the upstream of the original repository. I am a bit confused about why I should use it as a template when I pretty much lose access to future updates. Should I not just fork the repository instead and potentially get some neat updates?

CodePudding user response：

The difference between a fork and a template is that when you fork it's meant to contribute to the parent repository. Here are some of the pros/cons of each

Fork

Pros

• Be able to fetch upstream
• Able to open PRs to contribute to the head repository.

Cons

• Some features like visibility are unable to be changed.

Templates

Pros

• Can change all settings

Cons

• Unable to fetch upstream
• Able to open PRs to contribute to the head repository.