Re: never ever ever fork the codebase

Change that to DVCS, not Git in particular. 

Forking is okay, unless you want changes to flow
between the tines of the fork. 

If not, then forking is okay. If so, then you still
need to deal with maintaining the code in a way that
the merges won't be a minor case of integration hell.

Sharing changes among forks can get tricky, even with 
git (or HG, or BZR, or...), and even with copious unit
tests.

Tim

----- Original Message ----
> From: Phlip <phlip2005 <at> gmail.com>
> To: extremeprogramming <at> yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Fri, April 9, 2010 5:50:25 PM
> Subject: [XP] never ever ever fork the codebase
> 
> XP:

Except if you use git. Then you can fork when the wind 
> blows.

Disgust?

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   Phlip

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