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Re:A fork on GitHub is no fork by mikeash on Friday March 16, 2018 @10:23AM (#16600839)
Git is to GitHub what e-mail is to Gmail. GitHub is a specific service that offers git hosting and some extra goodies.

As for what is part of what, anything you do with the ‘git’ command is part of git. Anything you have to do on github.com is not.

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Re:A fork on GitHub is no fork by abhishekjha on Friday March 16, 2018 @10:26AM (#16600865)
>Anything you have to do on github.com is not

Just to be clear we can create a branch on github as well as on git though I am not forced to do so on github. This maybe confusing for a beginner as both provide branching.

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Re:A fork on GitHub is no fork by mikeash on Friday March 16, 2018 @10:48AM (#16601020)
Yeah, I nearly said “anything you do on github.com,” but then remembered there are things you can do both ways.
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Re:A fork on GitHub is no fork by jgtrosh on Friday March 16, 2018 @10:29AM (#16600878)
Unless you install GitHub's hub and alias `git` to `hub` as suggested in the install doc—then some of what you can do in Git is GitHub specific
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