CODEWITHSUNDEEP
github
mathiasrw
mathiasrw

Reputation: 618

Good visual graph of forks and why github is good

Im writing about opensource and crowdsourcing.

Github is great because one can take a copy, change something and if its good the change can be merged back to the "original"

Im trying to find a good visual example. Im looking for a project that has been fork by one person and then this one have been forked by a second person and THEN the changed have been merged back to the original.

Does anyone know about such an example?

How would you like to see a graphic example of why github is amayzing? (i like the complexity of the forks of https://github.com/carlhuda/bundler/network - but its too big to show in a good way)

thanks :)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 732

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1326812

Without having a cool visual example, the article "Collaborative_Github_Workflow" does detail the notion of fork:

GitHub forks

And with pull requests (1), it all goes back to the original repo:

GitHub cycle

Here are the branches 'next' and 'pu' of the GitHub repo for Got itself:

pu and next

Upvotes: 1

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