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 a nutshell, "fork" creates a copy of the project hosted on your own GitHub account.

"Clone" uses git software on your computer to download the source code and it's entire version history unto that computer