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Forking repositories

In this video, Ross Conyers, a University of St. Andrews graduate, explores how forking repositories are useful when collaborating with others.

In this video, you’ll explore forking repositories.

You will learn how to:

  • create a fork of the repository to contribute to
  • create changes on the forked repository
  • keep the fork up to date by adding upstream remote.
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