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.)
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| --- www/fossil-v-git.wiki | ||
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| 402 | 402 | private branches, so that a Git repo clone often isn't really a clone at |
| 403 | 403 | all: it may have an arbitrary number of differences relative to the |
| 404 | 404 | repository it originally cloned from. Git encourages siloed development. |
| 405 | 405 | Select work in a developer's local repository may remain private |
| 406 | 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. | |
| 407 | 415 | |
| 408 | 416 | All of this is exactly what one wants when doing bazaar-style |
| 409 | 417 | development. |
| 410 | 418 | |
| 411 | 419 | Fossil's normal mode of operation differs on every one of these points, |
| 412 | 420 |
| --- www/fossil-v-git.wiki | |
| +++ www/fossil-v-git.wiki | |
| @@ -402,10 +402,18 @@ | |
| 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 | All of this is exactly what one wants when doing bazaar-style |
| 409 | development. |
| 410 | |
| 411 | Fossil's normal mode of operation differs on every one of these points, |
| 412 |
| --- www/fossil-v-git.wiki | |
| +++ www/fossil-v-git.wiki | |
| @@ -402,10 +402,18 @@ | |
| 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. |
| 418 | |
| 419 | Fossil's normal mode of operation differs on every one of these points, |
| 420 |