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### About forks
Most commonly, forks are used to either propose changes to someone else's project or repository or to use someone else's repository as a starting point for your own idea. Forking allows you to create a copy of the repository and enables you to create changes. Once the changes has been made you can even submit the changes to the original repository by creating a pull request.
Most commonly, forks are used to either propose changes to someone else's project or to use someone else's project as a starting point for your own idea. You can fork a repository to create a copy of the repository and make changes without affecting the upstream repository. For more information, see "[Working with forks](/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/working-with-forks)."
#### Propose changes to someone else's project
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### [Working with forks](/articles/working-with-forks)
The forking is useful in Open Source Development. Forking a repository allows you to make contribution on that particular repository. While collaborating to Projects or Open Source Development, you can perform certain other operation with forks.
### Celebrate
You have now forked a repository, practiced cloning your fork, and configured an upstream repository. What do you want to do next?