title: Forking vs. Branching in GitHub
body: <p>I'd like to know more about the advantages and disadvantages of forking a github project vs. creating a branch of a github project.</p>
  
  <p>Forking makes my version of the project more isolated from the original one because I don't have to be on the collaborators list of the original project. Since we're developing a project in house, there is no problem in adding people as collaborators. But, we'd like to understand if forking a project would make merge changes back to the main project harder. That is, I wonder if branching makes keeping the two projects in sync easier. In other words, is it easier to merge and push changes between my version of the main project and the main project when I branch? </p>