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Ugh, 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 p
by akkartik 7y ago
Ugh, 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.