Forking, where a repo of the original is created in your own GitHub account is a lot more secure for the original and keeps the original repo a lot cleaner, ie: with a forked branch your dev branches don't show up in the original repo and any sandbox work that you do can't affect the original in any way so you can work and play around with the ...

Aug 31, 2010 · I'd like to know more about the advantages and disadvantages of forking a github project vs. creating a branch of a github project. Forking makes my version of the project more isolated from the

Forking on GitHub creates a personal copy of someone else's repository, allowing you to freely experiment with changes without affecting the original project.

Nov 26, 2011 · Try forking the Spoon-Knife project as suggested in the tutorial. The fork-and-pull model of open-source development allows anybody to start making changes without initially confronting or requesting permission from the project owners.

Jun 19, 2016 · I would like to make a section of my code more efficient. I'm thinking of making it fork off into multiple processes and have them execute 50/100 times at once, instead of just once. For example (

Aug 29, 2022 · The main difference between forking and threading approaches is one of operating system architecture. Back in the days when Unix was designed, forking was an easy, simple system that answered the mainframe and server type requirements best, as such it was popularized on the Unix systems. When Microsoft re-architected the NT kernel from scratch, it focused more on the threading model. As such ...

Jul 3, 2015 · Forking a repository allows you to freely experiment with changes without affecting the original project. Most commonly, forks are used to either propose changes to someone else's project or to use someone else's project as a starting point for your own idea.

Mar 23, 2016 · According to the Help.GitHub page Forking a project, creating the upstream branch is something you have to do; and they tell you how to do so.

Dec 12, 2012 · Are forking() and CreateProcess(with all required arguments), the same thing for Linux and WinXP, respectively? If they are different, then could someone explain the difference in terms of what ha...

Aug 11, 2022 · A fork is a copy of a repository. Forking a repository allows you to freely experiment with changes without affecting the original project. Usually a fork knows about its source repository, usually called upstream. This fact allows for sending pull requests (changes between upstream repo and the fork) back to upstream repo.