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Development Tools GitHub Basics Hello, GitHub! Social Coding Review

Posted by Ulysses Hall
Ulysses Hall
1,469 Points

Answer to quiz question about a social feature

What is the social feature which allows you to make a copy of a repository & is used to either propose changes back to the original project or as a starting point for your own idea.

2 Answers

Robert Dischinger
Robert Dischinger
17,702 Points
Robert Dischinger
Robert Dischinger
17,702 Points

A fork is a social feature which allows you to make a copy of a repository & is used to either propose changes back to the original project or as a starting point for your own idea.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,786 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,786 Points

:point_right: The answer is discussed about 30 seconds into the video on Social Coding:

Forking a repository, like branching, allows you to freely experiment with changes without affecting the original project. Forks are either used to propose changes to someone else's project, ... or to use someone else's project as a starting point for your own idea.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,786 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,786 Points

To those who downvoted this answer :-1:

Would you please leave a comment letting me know why you felt the answer was bad, and what I could do to improve the quality of it? Thanks!