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    <p><strong>Forking</strong> is about <strong>cloning a repo on the remote side, because you don't have direct credential to push on the main common repo</strong>.<br> That is why <a href="http://help.github.com/forking/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">GitHub introduced forking</a> (which is nothing else than a <code>git clone --bare</code> on the GitHub server side).</p> <p>If you do have the right to push directly to a git repo, forking it (meaning establishing a second "common" repo on the remote side) is <strong>not needed</strong>.</p> <p>Forking is not like a <code>git clone</code> you would do on the client side (i.e. on your workstation): there (on the local side) you can clone as many time as you want.</p> <hr> <p>That is why <a href="http://fronteers.nl/congres/2010/speakers#christian-heilmann" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Chris Heilmann</a> will have <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/codepo8/5018350616/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this slide</a> in his <a href="http://fronteers.nl/congres/2010/sessions#reasons-to-be-cheerful" rel="nofollow noreferrer">"Reasons to be cheerful" presentation</a> of <a href="http://fronteers.nl/congres/2010" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Fronteers 2010</a> (a non-profit trade organization of Dutch front-end developer), next October.</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pLE8B.jpg" alt="alt text"><br> <sup><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CC license</a></sup></p> <p>If you cannot directly contribute to a remote Git repo because you want to introduce drastic code, you can fork on the remote side, clone on the local side and pull/push at your heart's content.</p>
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