What are 'base' and 'head' repo in GitHub web UI?
问题 GitHub's UI is fairly unintuitive and poorly thought-out, so here's a problem and a question: What is the "head" repo? What is the "base" repo? I do not know which one is being copied from. The words "base" and "head" mean the same thing. The "head" of a linked list is similar to the "base" of a tree. (GitHub has fork tree and file tree.) "Head" and "base" are synonyms and mean the "start" of a data structure, so these labels are ambiguous. Despite the arrow in the diagram, it is not apparent