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There's a perfectly good reason for this

There's a perfectly good reason for this

Posted Aug 19, 2004 7:14 UTC (Thu) by mathijs (subscriber, #4948)
In reply to: There's a perfectly good reason for this by ruin8tr
Parent article: Parallel forks

fwiw, I'd say a branch denotes a fork which is maintained within the same version control system. It doesn't seem that unsensible to coin a new phrase for forks which behave a bit 'branchy' ;)


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