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From my very basic understanding, it’s like creating a fork in the road. Each path gets you to where you want to go, but the path is different. If you’re driving to LA on the main highway, someone might fork off that with a better path; they will both get you to LA but the forked path might be: faster, prettier, less road rage, etc. The forked path is still reliant upon the original but now it is in a repository that they can make changes to it without affecting the original.
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Forking tree branches are also a good analogy. Point being that they all stem from the same root but basically branch off of it into another direction.
Oh I think that's an even better analogy, thank you!!
Ahhh fork in the road, that makes good sense. Thanks for the reply.