fork-repo.md

How to fork a repository

First log into your github account and after finding the repo you want to copy or contribute to, do the following steps.

Step 1:

• On the top right side of the project repository you can see the fork section.Click on the fork section.

Step 2:

After clicking the Fork section, you will be seeing the following page.

Step 3:

• By default the repository name is same as their parent name.
• You can change the name of repository, if you want to customize it.

Step 4:

• Click on the create fork(green) button to fork the repository.

• Now you made the copy of repo in your own GitHub section. All the repo files and even the commit history is preserved in your GitHub.