There's a perfectly good reason for this

There's a perfectly good reason for this

Posted Aug 19, 2004 6:59 UTC (Thu) by lacostej (guest, #2760)
In reply to: There's a perfectly good reason for this by ruin8tr
Parent article: Parallel forks

I agree with you and I don't like the word parallel forks.
But the word branches is really generic and is used to talk about very different things.

I would have preferred something like "synchronized branches" or something that retains the word branch while adding the idea that these are longed lived branches. Maybe parralel branch if the word is to be taken from the article.

In fact there are even different ways in which these forks/branches are made:
- every now and then, a new branch is made and the collection of patches maintained localy are updated then applied onto that new local branch
- or the branch is created once and maintained. For each release the updates on the trunc are ported onto the branch.

Most projects probably pick solution 1

I would think that a parralel branch/fork would better describe the solution number 2. I don't find a good expression to identify solution number 1.

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