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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What's a fork, I know what GitHub is and use it too. Just don't know what a fork is haha

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

A fork in the road. When a developer takes an open source project and modifies it – thus creating their fork of the original software.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/working-with-forks/about-forks

It's basically like a copy of the original repository. But you can pull in and merge changes from the original, make a pull request for the original to pull your changes. Fork+pull request enables you to contribute to someone else's repository. Things like Chromium are in part forks of Safari, just that they diverged over time.