An fortunate reality of GitHub and similar sites is that projects that are abandoned by the maintainer are often continued by someone else who forked the project. Unfortunately, the ease of forking ...

SAN FRANCISCO --When the founders of GitHub moved into their swank South-of-Market loft last year, the first thing they did was redecorate. They turned the floor's biggest office into a parody of an ...

This posting is the last in a series introducing the text hosting and version control service GitHub GitHub, in its current form, can serve the needs of writers and scholars, just as it currently ...

The repository of the popular Syncthing fork for Android disappeared from GitHub and reappeared under dubious circumstances – is this an open-source hack?

The key difference between Git clone and fork comes down to how much control and independence you want over the codebase once you've copied it. Any public Git repository can be forked or cloned. A ...