"fork" is what we use to describe a user-branch of a project, where another user has write access to their own fork of the project. other dvcs hosts use the te

"fork" is what we use to describe a user-branch of a project, where another user has write access to their own fork of the project. other dvcs hosts use the term 'fork' to describe this as well, such as BitBucket and MicroSofts CodePlex. Google Code has a similar concept but they call them 'clone's. I think many people now consider "fork" a good thing, not an irreconcilable branch of the codebase.