Github "sub-member" and collaborating questions.

Github newb here. Why/how do some members show up as "sub-members" on the roll20 repository? Note the names below Actoba. When I first created my github account I forked and cloned the repository and I show up on the member list as expected. Recently I forked another members fork of the repository to help them, I would think this would make me a "sub-member"...? So, what's up with the sub-member list, and finally how should you collaborate with others when working on a sheet(best practice)? Thanks

Bump.

I'm sure github seems like second nature to you coder-types. :-) I show up on the list and have since the first time I forked the repository. I was just wondering why some users show up as "branches" off another member? I forked Sam's fork for editing the PF sheet and I've been updating to his fork once he OK's the pull request. Since I wasn't showing up as a "branch" off his name, like those after Actoba's, I thought that I might have done something wrong. I'll dig a little deeper. Thanks Riley.

Those are forks-of-forks. For example, if you click the link to Actoba's fork, you'll see "forked from Roll20/roll20-character-sheets", while if you click the link to ceraetes' fork, you'll see "forked from Actoba/roll20-character-sheets".

Brian said: Those are forks-of-forks. For example, if you click the link to Actoba's fork, you'll see "forked from Roll20/roll20-character-sheets", while if you click the link to ceraetes' fork, you'll see "forked from Actoba/roll20-character-sheets". That makes perfect sense, and I thought that is what I did. When I choose to fork from Sam ( Thequietcroc/roll20-character-sheets ), the hover says "Fork your own copy of Thequietcroc/roll20-character-sheets to your account" I click to fork, which redirects to the new fork vince-roll20/roll20-character-sheets forked from Roll20/roll20-character-sheets Shouldn't it say "forked from Thequietcroc/roll20-character-sheets"? Thanks for your help Brian.

forks are always of the inital repository to my understanding. you can think of it like a tree, the main repository is the trunk and branches are the forks. you generly consider a branch growing out of another branch as a branch of the original tree, not of the branch it grew off of. although my git experience is limited so i may be comletely wrong, this was the explanation given to me when i asked for help when i was expected to know how to use git for a class earlier this year.