[LAD] forking (was Re: Aeolus)

[Dan Muresan]

There's also the fact that you can't attach patches to github issues.

On 9/20/13, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
> On 09/20/13 01:38, Paul Davis wrote:
>> it is also much easier for project maintainers to handle pull requests
>> than
>> simple patches, which means that someone having their own fork on github
>> can actually be doing the project a service, rather than seeking to
>> "split"
>> from it.
>
> i'm aware of that feature of github and i'm using it myself in both
> directions.
>
> nevertheless, personally i only ever "github fork" a project after i
> pulled a clone of the original project to my desktop, worked on it and
> eventually want to submit a pull request.
>
> git makes it so easy to handle multiple repositories simultaneously
> (most of my git project have 2-4 remotes) and/or to change the URL of a
> single remote.
>
> nevertheless, it's not very important - i only found it slightly strange.
>
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> fgamsdr
> IOhannes
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