Collaborating with pull requests

As mentioned, Git supports collaboration between developers for a single project. We will take a look at how it is done when the code is hosted on GitHub.

In this case, I am going to take a look at the GitHub repository for this book. I am going to use a different GitHub handle, so I appear as a different user. I will click on the Fork bottom to make a copy of the repository in my personal account:

Git fork bottom

It will take a few seconds to make a copy:

Git fork in progress

After it is forked, we will ...

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