[Vm-dev] a Cog branch

[Douglas Brebner]

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" :)

> 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?