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Forks predate GitHub and have another almost opposing definition that sets up for a confusion here. By that lingo forks go their own way (like a fork in the roa
by sakjur 2y ago
Forks predate GitHub and have another almost opposing definition that sets up for a confusion here. By that lingo forks go their own way (like a fork in the road) independently of the upstream and clones are copies of an upstream.
- bastardoperator 2y agoI agree it does... fork() creates a new process by duplicating the calling process. Thats similar to what happens on git providers, you create a new repo by duplicating it, and the repo is linked aka child. Many forks do go their own way. You can choose to pull from upstream or completely ignore it.