How to fork a Git repo A Git fork is nothing more than a copy of an existing repository, along with a change to the name of the folder in which that repository resides. The change to the folder name ...

GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based source code management or version control system, but that’s just the beginning.

Microsoft-owned GitHub is finally sunsetting the Atom text editor, but there's already at least one community fork ready to keep it alive.