AI engineering glossary · Command line Git
What is fork?
Fork: A personal copy of someone else's repository made on a hosting platform under your own account. You can change it freely, and offer changes back to the original through a pull request. It is the standard way to contribute to open-source projects.
Fork: an example
You fork an open-source library to your GitHub account, fix a typo, and open a pull request to the original.
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Where you learn it
Fork is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.