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Understand when to fork a repository - Visual Studio Tutorial
From the course: Visual Studio: Source Control with Git and GitHub
Understand when to fork a repository
- [Instructor] When you want to collaborate on an open source or other big company project, it's best to create a fork. First, let's explore the subtle differences between forking and cloning a repo. To be clear, in the GitHub world, a fork and a clone are two ways to create a copy of an existing repository. The difference comes down to your intent. The main reason to create a fork is when you want to contribute changes back to the original repo and you are not an authorized contributor. Here's the basic idea. Use clone to make a local copy of an existing repository; use fork to make a copy of the repository on GitHub. Here's the scenario. I find an interesting public repository on GitHub, I'm interested in learning more and I want to be able to contribute ideas and code to the project. On GitHub, I create a fork. Now I have my own public copy of the repository in GitHub. Because GitHub is a social network, everyone can…
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