DevOps / Gitlab Interview questions
What is forking in GitLab?
Forking a project in GitLab creates a full personal or team copy of that project, including its repository history, under a different namespace. It's the standard way to contribute to a project you don't have direct write access to: fork it, push changes to your fork, then open a merge request back to the original (upstream) project.
A fork stays linked to its upstream project, which lets GitLab show comparisons between the fork and the original and makes it straightforward to open a cross-project merge request. Forking is common for open-source contributions and for isolating experimental work without risking the main project.
Forking a GitLab project creates:
Forking is most commonly used to:
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