The key difference between Git clone and fork comes down to how much control and independence you want over the codebase once you've copied it. Any public Git repository can be forked or cloned. A ...

Fork a Git or GitHub repository There is no fork command in Git. This comes as a surprise to many, as a repository fork is a broadly understood concept. But it’s not a function that Git provides. How ...

The bash completion support has been improved with few more options; remote-hg and remote-bzr helpers (in contrib/since v1.8.2) have been updated and “Git bisect” now leaves the final outcome ...

You can share documents, such as a syllabus, on GitHub so that other scholars can borrow from and adapt your work. Here is how to do it.

Scaling up Git with Scalar Things didn’t stop there. Now we’re on the third public version of Microsoft’s work on scaling Git, this time as part of the company’s own fork of Git— a ...

This article, “ Forking will become normal in 2011, so get ready for GitHub,” was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Read more of Savio Rodrigues’ Open Sources blog and follow the latest ...

The web-based software hosting service GitHub is everywhere lately, hosting over 2 million source code repositories being visited by 1.3 million users. Wired has a great look at the origins of the ...