Fork used in a sentence, 16 examples

Fork in a sentence as a noun

People talk about forking repos all the time.

I ask people if they've "forked [person's] repo" on the regular.

When we split off to form egcs the main resistance was to the idea that there would be a fork at all.

Anyone can fork the kernel, build a team of developers and usurp Linus.

I honestly don't even care if the guy said, "I'd fork his repo" in that typical, suggestive tone-of-voice.

He has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on the same subject?

While I did make a big dongle joke about a fictional piece hardware that identified as male, no sexual jokes were made about forking.

As a commenter pointed out, other legitimate cases for reimplementing this in js would be when you can't afford to or don't want to fork a process to run find/xargs/sed.

Fork in a sentence as a verb

I did a dry run on a fork of the main repo using my Github account, fixed up some issues in the script, and validated things to the best of my abilities.

Since the gcc maintainer was the bottleneck, we simply declared our tree a new fork with the support and participation of other major developers.

Why would anyone pay for a forked proprietary version of a library when the original open source project is available?

For projects like libraries, compilers or programming languages, it turns out that proprietary forks don't happen because of simple economics.

We build "frameworks", where one must tinker and monkey-patch and fork to such a degree that only another programmer can download and assemble a working system, let alone customize it.

Grab some branch names and commits from those forks and commit them to Nicolai's fork, under Nicolai's name and with a few Nicolai-specific changes here and there, to commit messages and perhaps to code comments, to obscure the trail.

For the people who are genuinely confused, Jolla is a company that sells smartphones, their first smartphone is also called Jolla; it runs Sailfish OS, which is effectively a fork of the Meego operating system which Nokia used in its N9/N900 phones, before they switched to Windows Mobile.

And if no one wants to directly pay for a forked version of some library, why would any company bother maintaining a fork when they can just contribute their improvements back and let the open source community maintain them for free?With a self-contained product like Light Table, on the other hand, there's a very real danger that some company could come along, fork the code base, make a bunch of improvements and start selling their version.

Fork definitions

noun

cutlery used for serving and eating food

noun

the act of branching out or dividing into branches

noun

the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches; "they took the south fork"; "he climbed into the crotch of a tree"

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