June 2018
Beginner
178 pages
4h 29m
English
Forked repositories are related to their parent in a way that GitHub uses in order to compare their branches. The fork and pull model is usually used in projects when you do not have write access, but are willing to contribute.
After forking a repository, you push a branch to your fork and then create a pull request in the parent repository, asking its maintainer to merge the changes. This is common practice for contributing to open source projects hosted on GitHub. You will not have access to their repository, but, being open source, you can fork the public repository and work on your own copy.
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