What is the difference between Git Clone and Fork?

When GitHub launched back in 2008, it chose the word fork to represent the action of a git clone command. When you fork a project on GitHub, you are actually just creating a clone of it—a copy on which you can perform your work. read more

A fork is just a request for GitHub to clone the project and registers it under your username; GitHub also keeps track of the relationship between the two repositories, so you can visualize the commits and pulls between the two projects (and other forks). read more

The difference between centralized VCS like Subversion and DVCSs like Git is that in Git, when you clone, you are actually copying the entire source repository, including all the history and branches. You now have a new repository on your machine and any commits you make go into that repository. read more