Git ContributeLesson 31Free preview

GitHub Fork

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Summary

Fork makes copies of other people's repositories in your own GitHub account, so you can modify them without written access to the original repo. Open source contribution streams are generally: fork, clone, create a branch, commit, then open the pull request to the parent repo. The parent repo is usually added as an upstream remote to keep it synchronized.

Key points

The fork is a copy of the repository on our GitHub server.
The clone makes a local copy of the fork to work on.
The original remote repo was added as upstream
Contributions to parent repo are made through pull request

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