The presence of useful forks means that there isn't a single authoritative state. For example, I've had a fork of bash-completion for a over a year, and I use

The presence of useful forks means that there isn't a single authoritative state. For example, I've had a fork of bash-completion for a over a year, and I use it all the time. How do I fork a Google doc? At best you can copy and modify, but here's no merge. Merging is a feature, not a bug (maybe not for all applications, but 99% of them).