What is and what does a Fork do on sites like CodePlex?

0	What is a fork? Something like this: and fork what like do is sites does codeplex on asked Feb 11 '12 at 06:07 RafalChmiel 491●138●151●156

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Think of it as a family tree... I write software, but i allow someone else to make changes to it, that could be a fork giving a new branch that branch can then also fork leading to more branches... if you trace any branch back you will find the original code.

However not all modifications result in a fork (branch). a change in code only results in a fork (branch) if there is a significant change to it. In Linux you see many forks (branches).

answered Feb 12 '12 at 20:15

trueb
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Thanks, I think I get it...

(Feb 13 '12 at 07:29) RafalChmiel

a fork is like a fork in a road... you start out on road A but road B comes out from it as well.

As your program is concerned it is a change to a different destination it branches off of the main road.

answered Feb 12 '12 at 10:37

trueb
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Thanks, but I'm still not really sure what it means.

(Feb 12 '12 at 15:55) RafalChmiel

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