This screenshot is old (at least 12 years).
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?
Dafuq is an e-note.
A pull-request to forked your reposotory obviously.
reposotory
poll roquest
Fox News viewers would need the concept of “sharing” explained to them first.
I’m almost more irritated by the use of two hyphens instead of a colon after the first definition. They just didn’t give a shit really.
Well, – you see – a colon can never follow quotation marks, in traditional typography: only ever two hyphens~
