Are there different types of releases on GitHub

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I have just noticed that there seem to be different ways to present releases on GitHub:

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/releases:

https://github.com/exiftool/exiftool/releases:

These two ways can also be mixed in the same project, as seen here,
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/releases?after=2016.06.16:

What is the significance of these differences, and how can the author influence this? Is the only difference being a "verified" release? Why does exiftool not have a "Latest release"? And, finally, is this related to me not getting any release notification for exiftool, although I am watching exiftool releases and keep getting release notifications for youtube-dl?

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The answer is, according to the GitHub support, that

the "Releases" page (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/releases and https://github.com/exiftool/exiftool/releases) will show tags and releases.

exiftool is actually not making any formal releases - what is shown are tags. That is also why there is no "Latest release".

Also, this explains why I don't get any release notification:

We don't currently send release notifications for tags, even with "Watching releases" enabled.

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GitHub – How to Merge Commit from Different Fork of the Same Repo

You should be able to just pull down the other repo and have it merge with yours.

git pull {url-of-repo-with-commit-you-want-to-merge-in}

This will fetch the repo mentioned and have it automatically fast forward merge in any commits you don't have into yours.

So in your example, while on your master branch, or if you want to test it out on some other branch:

git pull git://github.com/dantipa/history.js.git
remote: Counting objects: 9, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1/1), done.
remote: Total 5 (delta 4), reused 5 (delta 4)
Unpacking objects: 100% (5/5), done.
From git://github.com/dantipa/history.js
 * branch            HEAD       -> FETCH_HEAD
Updating e84ad00..e2d5251
Fast-forward
 scripts/uncompressed/history.js |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Now with the other commit merged with yours you can push back up to your own remote with that extra change.

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On both these pages there are filter-buttons for "Forks".

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