Patrick Young

The current repository would not be a fork. It would contain a [submodule ](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules)(link to another git repository) to the fork. *Before doing any of the following I recommend creating...

What is it you mean by: > The submodule method is not easy to track the new version. ? The main project would reference a specific commit of the submodule...

Yes that would be the idea. `acbull:Unbiased_LightGBM` would be a fork of `microsoft/LightGBM:release` (where `release` is some release commit). Then `acbull:Unbiased_LightGBM:release` would be added as a submodule to this project,...

Adding that this PR fixed my issues with `wsl-gvproxy.exe is not executable due to WSL interop settings or Windows permissions`.

I recommend, as part of this issue or as a separate issue, replacing Travis CI with GitHub Actions.