> A fork implies that the projects are going diverge, ...which is exactly what you're doing when you branch off a release branch and start applying your own co

> A fork implies that the projects are going diverge, ...which is exactly what you're doing when you branch off a release branch and start applying your own commits with no plan to merge them back to mainline. > which it seems they don't want to happen. They are already doing it. They are only arguing that they can reapply the same patches over the next release branch, but that doesn't really change anything.