title: GitHub: Failed to load latest commit information
body: <p>I am actually new to GitHub and don't know much of its functionality. So my problem may be very fundamental. I googled, and searched in stack-overflow too. But did not find any solution.</p>
  
  <p>Recently, I forked <a href="https://github.com/torvalds/linux" rel="noreferrer">Linux</a> to simply serve my curiosity. But the process was taking too much time to finish. So I pressed the "refresh" button and the process stopped. The project did appear but with a warning:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QT2QA.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QT2QA.png" alt="Failed to load latest commit information."></a></p>
  
  <p>I asked for "new pull request" but this message was shown:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PGeYg.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PGeYg.png" alt="There isn&#39;t anything to compare."></a></p>
  
  <p>Now, I don't understand why it happened, and if it will have any effect on the forked project. Is there any way to fix this?</p>
  
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  <p><strong>EDIT-1:</strong> I forked the repository again later, &amp; waited for the process to finish. But the result did not change.</p>
  
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  <p><strong>EDIT-2:</strong> Yesterday I forked that repository again, but from my friend's account (of course with his permission). Alas! same result!</p>