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It seems common to me for people to say, "Can you create a fork and make a pull request?" But it does vary by project. The Linux kernel has tons of forks main
by btilly 7y ago
It seems common to me for people to say, "Can you create a fork and make a pull request?"
But it does vary by project. The Linux kernel has tons of forks maintained by random people for random reasons. But Python not so much.
- akkartik 7y agoUgh, I hate GitHub for polluting the terminology. There's two distinct senses of 'fork' here: a) A short-lived branch hosted elsewhere for managing the merge process. This is a technical fork. b) A long-lived branch that may never be merged back. This is a social fork. Like egcs vs gcc, or Vim vs Neovim. It's the latter that seems to have stigma attached to it.