Microsoft

Supporting Inner Source with Forks

Nov 21, 2017Edward Thomson
Supporting Inner Source with Forks
SummaryAI, from the source post

Introduces the ability to fork Git repositories hosted in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). This enables a fork-based pull request workflow, which is popular for open-source projects and also supports Inner Source practices within companies. Developers can create a duplicate copy of a repository, experiment safely in their fork, and then open a pull request back to the original repository without needing write access. The post details the UI for creating forks and opening pull requests across forks.

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