Tuesday, 16 February 2016

FORK - ( Bitbucket / Github )

Fork


Fork generally used in open source project, where everyone can have read access of repository. Everyone can fork it.

  • It copies whole repository from another account to your account.
  • Now this is your separate copy of repository.
  • You can modify source code. It will not changed the source code from where you forked.
  • If you want to merge your changes to original repository then you need to create pull request.
  • The owner will get notification and will accept/decline it.
  • If he accepted then it will merge in the original repository.

Difference Between Fork and Clone


Fork: Copy repository from another account to your account. This is feature of Bitbucket/Github.

Clone: Copy your remote repository to your local repository (machine).

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