David Brown wrote:
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:13:37PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Those things all went into FreeBSD without forking it.
However, you are correct in that forking certainly wastes energy.
Linus' argument is that it doesn't. He _encourages_ forking. Every
developer should have a fork. That's what he calls distributed
development.
The difference is to embrace distributed development rather than fear it.
Sometimes people have different definitions of "fork". When we say
forking is bad we usually mean it in the context of a permanent fork
which certainly does waste energy. Linus says forks are good because he
has every expectation that they will not diverge too far and will
eventually re-merge with his tree. This is not wasted energy.
This reminds me that I still need to play with mercurial.
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