Re: Approaches to forking code

On 20-Jan-2009, at 00:20 , Chris Velevitch wrote:

> I see there is a fair amount of information and discussion on
> branching, tagging, copying and merging but I see nothing on forking.

In my mind the only distinctions between branching and forking are:

1) An entirely separate organization of people will be maintaining the
new code
and/or
2) The new code is not expected to retain any similarity to the old
code base

If your use case doesn't match one of those conditions then it's just
a new branch, and I'd recommend you do a cheap copy in the same
repository.

I think the above is only likely to occur in a few sets of somewhat
rare circumstances.. such as a group deciding they don't like the
direction an open source project is taking, wanting to fork off their
own project and take it a different way ... or a corporation licensing
another company to repackage or adapt some software.

Matt

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