fork

Klint Finley has written about Ward Cunningham's development of Fedwiki , linking ideas around Fedwiki to Github, whose strapline is "Build software better, together".

A fork action, would be the recording of the act of forking in such a way that that information could be used by other parites – such as to notify people.

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fork | BrE fɔːk, AmE fɔrk | A noun 1 (for eating with) Gabel (Fem.) ▸ knife and fork Messer und Gabel Besteck (Neutr.) ▸ the knives and forks das Besteck ▸ fork lunch Gabelfrühstück (Neutr.) (archaic) ≈ kaltes Büfett 2 (Farming) Gabel (Fem.) Forke (Fem.) (mainly North German ) 3 in sing. or pl. (on bicycle) Gabel (Fem.) 4 ([point of] division into branches) Gabelung (Fem.) (one branch) Abzweigung (Fem.) (of tree) Astgabel (Fem.) B intransitive verb 1 (divide) sich gabeln 2 (turn) abbiegen ▸ fork [to the] left [for] [nach] links abbiegen [nach] C transitive verb gabeln ▸ fork in manure Mist [mit einer Gabel] untergraben PHRASAL VERBS fork out (informal) A transitive verb lockermachen (informal) ▸ fork out money blechen (informal) B intransitive verb ▸ fork out [for sth] [für etw.] blechen (informal) fork over transitive verb lockern ‹Boden› fork up ▶ fork out