irelephant [he/him]@programming.dev to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 30 days agoFox news trying to explain github.programming.devimagemessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squaremonkeyman512@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·30 days agoPart of me is bothered by those explanations, but if I had to explain GitHub to a tech illiterate grandparent with that much screen space I don’t know if I would do much better.
minus-squareEranziel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·30 days agoRepository: a collection of computer code for a software program (or app if you insist). Fork: a copy of a repository so you can edit it without affecting the original. Pull request: a request to the owner of a repo to bring in some changes you made in a fork. I think I even got the word count down.
minus-squarehperrin@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·30 days agoRepository: your code. Fork: my code. Pull request: u want my code?
Part of me is bothered by those explanations, but if I had to explain GitHub to a tech illiterate grandparent with that much screen space I don’t know if I would do much better.
Repository: a collection of computer code for a software program (or app if you insist).
Fork: a copy of a repository so you can edit it without affecting the original.
Pull request: a request to the owner of a repo to bring in some changes you made in a fork.
I think I even got the word count down.
Repository: your code.
Fork: my code.
Pull request: u want my code?