[Vm-dev] a Cog branch

[Igor Stasenko]

On 26 June 2010 02:29, Douglas Brebner <squeaklists at fang.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 25/06/2010 23:04, Andreas Raab wrote:
>>
>> On 6/25/2010 1:59 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>
>>> I really cannot understand your objection.
>>
>> Yes, I'm obviously doing a bad job formulating my concern :-)
>>
>> The concern isn't about the utilization of a DVCS. The concern is about
>> people saying "hurray, now we can finally fork". If we're in a situation
>> that people feel that way, then we're doing something wrong and it has
>> nothing to do with the use of a DVCS.
>>
>
> To me, it sounds more like "hurray, now we can finally maintain our own
> private changes without jumping though a bunch of hoops" :)
>
I'd say
"hurray, we can finally work".


>> So everyone here explaining to me how great it is to fork is doing nothing
>> but deepening my concern that we have a real problem and that the only
>> outcome of a switch to a DVCS is that we'll end up in a multitude of
>> incompatible forks. Which is what I'm trying to avoid.
>>
>
>
> I think the problem is with the use of the word "fork". Isn't a private copy
> of a repo more akin to a branch?
>



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