Words to Know

git: a distributed version control system for managing and editing source code

repo: short for repository, a project that uses git

GitHub: a platform and website for hosting and making public a git repo

fork: a copy of a repo

commit: a change to a git repo

commit history: history of all changes made in a repo

branch: a copy of the commit history at a given point for tracking new, divergent changes

remote: a copy of the repository hosted on another computer, such as GitHub (or another hosting site)

local: the copy of your repository on your local machine

pull request: a request to merge the commit history of a branch (possibly on a fork) into the main repo

GitHub Glossary