What is the difference between Forking and Cloning on GitHub?
A fork is just a request for GitHub to clone the project and registers it under your username; GitHub also keeps track of the relationship between the two repositories, so you can visualize the commits and …
git - Delete forked repo from GitHub - Stack Overflow
Fork relationship means, that you can easily tell github that it should send a pull request (with your changes) from your fork to the original repository because github knows that your repository is a …
What does it mean to fork on GitHub? - Stack Overflow
A fork is a copy of a project folder (repository) into your github account or onto your desktop if you use Github on your Desktop. This allows you to freely experiment with changes without affecting the …
git - Forking vs. Branching in GitHub - Stack Overflow
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
c - fork () child and parent processes - Stack Overflow
fork() executes before the printf. So when its done, you have two processes with the same instructions to execute. Therefore, printf will execute twice. The call to fork() will return 0 to the child process, and …
The difference between fork (), vfork (), exec () and clone ()
204 vfork() is an obsolete optimization. Before good memory management, fork() made a full copy of the parent's memory, so it was pretty expensive. since in many cases a fork() was followed by exec(), …
How to change the fork that a repository is linked to
2023: gh repo fork allows since gh v2.37.0 to set default repo when forking repo. Now, If the repository is a fork, its parent repository will be set as the default remote repository. See issue 6827 and PR 7768, …
c - How and why can fork () fail? - Stack Overflow
Jul 4, 1999 · 22 fork can fail because you live in the real world, not some infinitely-recursive mathematical fantasy-land, and thus resources are finite. In particular, sizeof(pid_t) is finite, and this …
c - How does fork () work? - Stack Overflow
Dec 19, 2015 · fork() duplicates the process, so after calling fork there are actually 2 instances of your program running. How do you know which process is the original (parent) one, and which is the new …
How do I fetch a branch on someone else's fork on GitHub?
Closed 9 years ago. I've forked from a repo on GitHub. I want to get the code from a branch on another user's fork. Must I clone this user's whole repo to a separate local repo or can I do something like git …