whatis git

Git is a system for managing source code changes, whereas GitHub and gitlab are online hosting platforms for your git repositories.

Forks

Forks allow you to make a copy of a public onlnie repository. When you fork a repository you are copying it and transferring it to your own profile.

This important, since you don’t have direct access to making a commit to a repo not owned by you, forking allows you to create a copy where you’re free to make your changes first.

Once you’ve updated your fork with changes you want to make to the public repo, you can then submit your changes through a pull request.

Pull requests

Pull requests are a way of submitting changes to a public repo. When you make a pull request, the changes made on your fork of the repo is submitted to the original repo.

Does this have a different name in gitlab and why is not called a merge.

Issues

Issue section you can do things like raise bugs, request a feature, ask a question, suggest a bug fix, suggest a