Forking Workflow

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This type of workflow is fundamentally different than the other ones mentioned on this topic. Instead of having one centralized repo that all developers have access to, each developer has his/her own repo that is forked from the main repo. The advantage of this is that developers can post to their own repos rather than a shared repo and a maintainer can integrate the changes from the forked repos into the original whenever appropriate.

A visual representation of this workflow is as follows:

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