Why and how developers fork what from whom in GitHub
Forking is the creation of a new software repository by copying another repository. Though forking is controversial in traditional open source software (OSS) community, it is encouraged and is a built-in feature in GitHub. Developers freely fork repositories, use codes as their own and make changes....
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Main Authors: | JIANG, Jing, LO, David, HE, Jiahuan, XIA, Xin, KOCHHAR, Pavneet Singh, ZHANG, Li |
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2017
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Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3705 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4707/viewcontent/WhyHowDevelopersForkGitHub_2017.pdf |
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