Fork See something you like, but want to make it better? Break off a piece of that trunk and go to town. Spoon Find a suitable spooning partner. Signal your intention. Begin coding your change together. Be gentle. Knife When you're satisfied with your change, submit a pull request to get it back to the main vein.

LET THE WORLD KNOW

Show your spooning pride by wearing one of these official spooning t-shirts. Easily identify yourself to other spooners, making it easy to start a spooning session any time, any place. You can really let the world know by tweeting your favorite shirt – every 10th tweeter up to 100 will receive that shirt, FREE! (Limit one entry per person per shirt.)

Here at Intel, we love to spoon. The only hard part is figuring out who's the bit, and who's the bucket. – Chad Dodson, Intel

– Chad Dodson, Intel Spooning has spread around our office like wildfire. Some of the more advanced spooners have even attempted sporking. – Terry Peters, Übercode

– Terry Peters, Übercode I sat next to Tom for 10 years, but never really felt like I knew him until we started spooning. Now we're like two peas in a pod. – Harold Pebbles, TouchPlay LLC

– Harold Pebbles, TouchPlay LLC My startup partner and I would spoon in the garage 'til the wee hours of the night, until my wife complained. – Alex Merishami, Entrepreneur

– Alex Merishami, Entrepreneur We always hoped the Bitbucket team would provide fresh ideas to Atlassian. We had no idea they'd spark a coding revolution. – Jay Simons, Atlassian

– Jay Simons, Atlassian Spooning makes pair programming look like child's play. – Theresa Perry, BWM Systems

YOU-SPOON

The spooning craze is fastly sweeping the globe. Submit spooning photos of you and your coding partner on Flickr and tag them with "bitbucketspooning" to count yourself among our ranks!