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.

[–] Eranziel@lemmy.world 132 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 89 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Repository: your code.

Fork: my code.

Pull request: u want my code?

[–] Quik 1 points 3 months ago

Maybe make it, my edited copy of your code instead, then we got both the shortest & best explanation :D

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