How can I see whether a github fork might be further than the original?

Question

Sometimes I face the situation that a not actively maintained github project has several forks.

I would like to investigate these forks whether they have any features I could be interested in.

Is there any possibility to see whether

• any of the forks has any / further commits than the original project
• or pull requests
• or issues

?

Answer 1

You can try and use a tool like techgaun/active-forks which will find the most active forks of a repository.

You can sort the result by last push and get an idea of fork recent activity

Example: https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html#rafalense/Plus-Messenger