# Forking Solidus

If your store requires deep customizations to Solidus's core functionality, you may want to fork Solidus for your store where you can more freely implement your features.

Note that this can complicate your Solidus upgrade process or can break other Solidus extensions you may wish to use.

The benefit of using a fork of Solidus is that you can test your new features with Solidus's test suite and ensure your development has not broken Solidus's existing functionality.

You can reference a fork of Solidus in your Gemfile this way:

gem 'solidus', git: 'https://github.com/my_account/solidus.git', branch: "my-new-feature"

If you think your feature (or fix) is of interest to the wider Solidus community, consider making a pull request.

# Create a "private fork"

If your organization needs to work in a private repository for any reason, forking Solidus becomes slightly more complicated. GitHub does not allow you to create private forks of public repositories. Instead, you can duplicate the repository. See GitHub's Duplicating a repository article for more information.