But isn't the point of the split that they have differing opinions on how to do things? Hence, they -will- diverge according to those differences in opinion. No

But isn't the point of the split that they have differing opinions on how to do things? Hence, they -will- diverge according to those differences in opinion. Not to mention, keeping them consistent means someone has to take code added to one, and port it into the other. That must take some work, and I can see the laziness of people coming through.