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I think forks aren't anything like branches in Git. Forks are clones. By your logic, every clone is just a "heavy duty branch" which doesn't compute for me. Ya

I think forks aren't anything like branches in Git. Forks are clones. By your logic, every clone is just a "heavy duty branch" which doesn't compute for me. Ya know?

duaneb 13y ago
> By your logic, every clone is just a "heavy duty branch" which doesn't compute for me. Ya know? That's exactly what I mean. How is this a difficult concept? Branches are lightweight, clones are heavyweight. There's really very little difference except that they can share branches of the same name that point to different refs, I guess.
- encoderer 13y ago
  Branches are just bookmarks to a given spot in your DAG. A clone is an entirely separate DAG. They are nothing alike in concept or practice.
  - duaneb 13y ago
    They are precisely the same when considering merging two distributed states. How those states are stored seems trivial.
    - encoderer 13y ago
      Ok, by some definition you made up that only matters to you, sure, they are the same.
      - duaneb 13y ago
        The same may be said to you. :)