Fossil SCM

Add para on git forking as siloed development enthusiastically adopted by github, who promote their public project count (currently 43 million according to the link.)

danshearer 2021-01-15 20:48 trunk
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private branches, so that a Git repo clone often isn't really a clone at
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all: it may have an arbitrary number of differences relative to the
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repository it originally cloned from. Git encourages siloed development.
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Select work in a developer's local repository may remain private
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indefinitely.
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+The Git preference for siloed development has been strongly adopted by Github,
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+who say
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+"[https://guides.github.com/activities/forking|Forking is at the core of social coding at GitHub]".
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+As a result, as of January 2021,
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+[https://github.com/search?q=is:public|Github hosts 43 million distinct software projects],
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+most of them created as a results of Git/Github forking and very many
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+of them discontinued.
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All of this is exactly what one wants when doing bazaar-style
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development.
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Fossil's normal mode of operation differs on every one of these points,
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--- www/fossil-v-git.wiki
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402 private branches, so that a Git repo clone often isn't really a clone at
403 all: it may have an arbitrary number of differences relative to the
404 repository it originally cloned from. Git encourages siloed development.
405 Select work in a developer's local repository may remain private
406 indefinitely.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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408 All of this is exactly what one wants when doing bazaar-style
409 development.
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411 Fossil's normal mode of operation differs on every one of these points,
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--- www/fossil-v-git.wiki
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402 private branches, so that a Git repo clone often isn't really a clone at
403 all: it may have an arbitrary number of differences relative to the
404 repository it originally cloned from. Git encourages siloed development.
405 Select work in a developer's local repository may remain private
406 indefinitely.
407
408 The Git preference for siloed development has been strongly adopted by Github,
409 who say
410 "[https://guides.github.com/activities/forking|Forking is at the core of social coding at GitHub]".
411 As a result, as of January 2021,
412 [https://github.com/search?q=is:public|Github hosts 43 million distinct software projects],
413 most of them created as a results of Git/Github forking and very many
414 of them discontinued.
415
416 All of this is exactly what one wants when doing bazaar-style
417 development.
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419 Fossil's normal mode of operation differs on every one of these points,
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