Best approach to combine frameworks in github?

Question

I'm new to git, and having done a fair bit of reading up I've set up a github account ready to get started.

I plan to combine elements of Inuit.css with Bones to create my own starter framework for Wordpress projects.

My question is should I fork each of these projects and clone them locally, then edit/combine and upload to a new repository? The help info regarding forking appears to imply that you would fork a repository when you were looking to contribute to the original repository rather than create a derivative work, or perhaps that is just the most common use case?

The other option I can see is to just download the repository for each as a zip file, combine/edit and then upload them to a new repository.

Is there a benefit to either route or perhaps another approach that I might be missing?

Thanks.

Answer 1

If -- and this is a big if -- you just need to bring in elements from each framework, without modifying the files in either, then you might consider using git submodules. See e.g. http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Submodules for details.