To check your own understanding of GitHub, answer the questions that follow.
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What is the purpose of GitHub? Write your response here. GitHub is a place to collaborate on projects. It allows you to pull and push files to share and work on with people, or simply create an online repository of your project.
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What is the difference between forking and cloning a repository? Write your response here. Forking creates a copy of a project on GitHub under your account. Cloning pulls the project from GitHub onto your computer for you to work on it. It creates a clone of the directory on your own machine.