Forks Glossary
Browse 7 forks terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
7 Forks Terms
- Downstream Fork
- A derived project or package maintained separately from an upstream source, usually carrying its own patches, packaging choices, or release cadence. Downstream...
- Fork It
- A blunt way of saying to create a separate copy of a project and take it in a different direction, often when maintainers disagree or progress is blocked. It...
- OpenTofu
- An open-source fork of Terraform created to preserve an openly governed infrastructure-as-code toolchain.
- Redis Fork
- A derivative project created from the Redis codebase, usually in response to governance, licensing, or strategic disagreement.
- Upstream
- The original or authoritative project, source, or branch from which downstream packages, forks, or local modifications derive. In open source workflows,...
- Upstream Contribution
- A patch, fix, feature, or other work submitted back to the original project rather than kept only in a private fork or downstream package. Upstream...
- Valkey
- An open-source in-memory data-store fork that emerged in response to licensing concerns around Redis.
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- Developer Culture (1 terms in common)
- Dependencies (1 terms in common)
- In Memory (1 terms in common)
- Terraform (1 terms in common)
- Infrastructure As Code (1 terms in common)
- Distributions (1 terms in common)