Forked in a sentence as an adjective

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

Has a civil engineer forked an open source bridge?

Alice forked Juan's recipe and modified it to fit tastes.

There's a comment on the blog post that I thought was very good, it was from Rob, and it ends with:"Please, try harder or get forked.

Everything we create is open source [5], everything can be forked, and that's fine.

We forked Windows Server 2003, and reworked the specs to get the most bang for the buck on a limited time budget.

There are some other templates like one forked from Grovvy that are more advanced then the default system.

... I would love if GitHub supported a model where if I forked a repo at a version and made no changes, it treated it like a private repo.

Has an biomedical engineer ever forked a open source prosthetic hip implant?

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

Explanation: WikiTravel fell into the hands of a company called Internet Brands, users got dissatisfied, they forked the wiki on August 2012 and created WikiVoyage under Wikimedia's wing.

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.

Forked definitions

adjective

resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots"

See also: bifurcate biramous branched fork-like forficate pronged prongy

adjective

having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a sly double meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue"

See also: double