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Re: Git fork removal?

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Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date
Apr 28, 2005, 02:12 UTC
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<20050428021237.GA8612@pasky.ji.cz>
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Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 03:31:18AM CEST, I got a letter where Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> told me that...

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> I saw that "fork" was removed when going to the cg- scripts, and the
> replacements don't do the symlinked trees thing. I found the symlinked
> trees thing vital to my workflow, so I'm going to want to reintroduce
> them, or something similar. Is there some reason you went to hardlinked
> object files instead of symlinked directories?
The user. ;-)

Apparently, too many people were confused by the local/remote branches distinctions, and even I ceased to like it gradually (BTW, Cogito still supports working with them - it just does not offer any interface for manipulation with them). The current scheme is much simpler and I believe more clear.

Also, the forked repositories were not truly independent - people actually got burnt by forking and then removing the original repository.

If this breaks your workflow, could you please describe it? Perhaps we could find a good semantics to support both.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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