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Re: not sure if this is appropriate -- GH/Github question

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Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 8, 2020, 12:40 UTC
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On 6/6/2020 4:36 PM, bruce wrote:
> Testing the "create fork" process using the "GH" Github cli.

You are correct, this is not the appropriate place. GitHub and Git are two different things. The most concise description I've seen is the following from StackOverflow [1]:

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> Git is a revision control system, a tool to manage your
> source code history.
> 
> GitHub is a hosting service for Git repositories.
> 
> So they are not the same thing: Git is the tool, GitHub is
> a service for projects that use Git.
(Note: I edited "the service" with "a service".)
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/13321586/127088

Please create an issue at https://github.com/cli/cli instead for issues related to the GH client.

Thanks, -Stolee

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  1. bruceJun 6, 2020
  2. Derrick StoleeJun 8, 2020

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