Reference : Udacity Github and Collaboration course

This is something new and what I haven’t done before, probably because I haven’t worked much with someone else’s work.

Forking is not a git command, it’s a github concept, which lets you to duplicate the remote repository to my remote repository. So git fork command would not work. You have to fork from the github.

So to get a sense why we need a fork, if we clone a github that is not ours, and try to push an update, it won’t work because we don’t have authorization.

So to make changes to the project, we can fork it and make it our own changes in our own github repository!

When you want to contribute to the original post, we can do a pull request. This is kind of confusing, but it can be understood as the original post’s perspective, they’re pulling what I’ve coded, so it makes sense.

Just keep in mind that when making contributions, check the issue page (which will be a markdown) and make a new issue that you are not wasting your time with a thing someone else is also doing.