What is the difference between Forking and Cloning on GitHub?

Question

I\'d like to know the differences between doing a Fork of a project and doing a clone of it.

Can I only send pull requests via GitHub if I\'ve forked a

Answer 1

In case you did what the questioner hinted at (forgot to fork and just locally cloned a repo, made changes and now need to issue a pull request) you can get back on track:

1. fork the repo you want to send pull request to
2. push your local changes to your remote
3. issue pull request