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Re:Winamp Legacy player source code by sakjur on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @12:52AM (#41643808)
Forks predate GitHub and have another almost opposing definition that sets up for a confusion here. By that lingo forks go their own way (like a fork in the road) independently of the upstream and clones are copies of an upstream.
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Re:Winamp Legacy player source code by bastardoperator on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @03:10AM (#41644527)
I agree it does...

  fork() creates a new process by duplicating the calling process.
Thats similar to what happens on git providers, you create a new repo by duplicating it, and the repo is linked aka child.

Many forks do go their own way. You can choose to pull from upstream or completely ignore it.

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