August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
9h 16m
English
Forking workflow is very popular among the open source community. Its idea is presented in the following figure:

Each developer has his own server-side repository. They may or may not be the official repository, but technically, each repository is exactly the same.
Forking means literally creating a new repository from the other repository. Developers push to their own repositories and when they want to integrate the code, they create a pull request to the other repository.
The main advantage of the forking workflow is that the integration is not necessarily via a central repository. It also helps with the ownership because ...
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