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Fork (software development)

In software development, a fork is a codebase that is created by duplicating an existing codebase and, generally, is subsequently modified independently of the original. Software built from a fork initially has identical behavior as software built from the original code, but as the source code is increasingly modified, the resulting software tends to…

Forking of free and open-source software, Etymology & Forking proprietary software

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Etymology

Forking of free and open-source software

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Forking proprietary software

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Fork (software development)

Nodes73
Edges72
Triples15
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027397
Components1

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fork software original forks forking code source development community proprietary free forked used project different version changes independent user definition

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Mercurial or Gitinstance ofWith a DVCS0.80text
the normal way to contribute to a projectinstance ofWith a DVCS0.80text
is to first create a personal branch of the repositoryinstance ofWith a DVCS0.80text
independent of the main repositoryinstance ofWith a DVCS0.80text
and later seek to have your changes integrated with itinstance ofWith a DVCS0.80text
GitHubinstance ofSites0.80text
Bitbucketinstance ofSites0.80text
Launchpad provide free DVCS hosting expressly supporting independent branchesinstance ofSites0.80text
such that the technicalinstance ofSites0.80text
socialinstance ofSites0.80text
financial barriers to forking a source code repository are massively reducedinstance ofSites0.80text
and GitHub usesinstance ofSites0.80text

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