Mercurial would call a Fossil fork a "head"[1]. -J
[1]: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MultipleHeads On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Ron W <ronw.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > As the flurry of discussion of "forks" starts to ebb, it occurred to me > there is a conflict between how Fossil defines "fork" and how many open > source project define "fork". > > Fossil defines "fork" as an accidental, unintended "branch" in the commit > history. > > But, to many in the open source community (and other SW development > communities), a "fork" is an intentional split from the commit history to > either create a development branch or to create a new project from an > existing one. Example: Devuan Linux is a fork of Debian Linux (in contrast > to Ubuntu, which is (was?) a down stream derivative of Debian). > > Also, there's the much older "fork in the road", referring a connected > road going in a different direction. > > Unfortunately, I had no luck finding any better term for what Fossil calls > a "fork". (My search-fu maybe off this morning.) > > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > >
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