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Fork and clone the repository

- [Instructor] So here is my repository on GitHub. This is one of the accounts that I use for some of my courses and you can see there is a few repositories in there including the one I just added. Anybody can fork this because it's a public repository. So let's put on Terry's account, she's already logged in here. And she's heard about this open source project and she would like to look at it and maybe contribute some code. So she'd go here. Typically when you create a GitHub repository you add a readme file so people can learn more about the project. I didn't do that, so it's not shown here. But let's assume that I had uploaded a readme markdown document and Terry reads it and decides yes, this is a project she'd like to work on. So her first step is to fork the repository. That's easy to do by clicking on this Fork button. Now there's two versions of this repository on GitHub, my original here and her fork. Now…

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