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Mikolaj :autism:

@esm Just like Discord ruined the word "server", GitHub ruined the word "fork".

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Dawid Rejowski

@mikolaj @esm

Really? Can you explain what's the difference?

Mikolaj :autism:

@didek @esm Forking means having a schism in the project -- one group of people stays in the original codebase, another goes to work on a new *forked* codebase, and both codebases proceed to diverge.

On GitHub, however, forking means creating a personal development branch, frequently meant to be merged back into the original codebase. Not a schism.

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