Re: [xbiblio-devel] interesting model: homebrew

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@gm...>]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Kieren Diment <di...@gm...> wrote:
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> On 02/02/2011, at 12:43 AM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
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>> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Bruce D'Arcus <bd...@gm...> wrote:
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>>> Not really sure why they emphasize both forking and branching though,
>>> but I sense it's important to understand.
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> Forking is just making your own copy of the repository.  As every git repository is a self contained complete repository (distributed VCS) it's a bit like if everybody was contributing to the same project using a completely different svn server then merging at key points.

Yes I know that; particularly so with mercurial. But git has in-repo
branches as well, and in this case, the project suggests
simultaneously forking the repo and doing the changes on a branch
within that fork. It seems like effectively double-branching (and so
redundant), but assume there must be a reason for it.

Bruce