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ants_everywhere
3 months ago
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Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of fo...
The use of "fork" predates GitHub as well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development)
globular-toast
3 months ago
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Yeah, it's an older term but forking in that sense is a pretty big deal. GitHub fork is just a button press and can be done basically automatically when you are interested in a repo.
ants_everywhere
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Ah okay I see what you mean
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