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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:35:52 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Choosing a distributed version control system for
 PHP (or not). Call for Participation.
From: ava3ar@gmail.com (Keloran)

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all of those you listed, when you look at the fork path, can be traced to
the real root, but thats the point to git, the main might have a bug, and
becasue you can fork, and give pull-requests, until main is fixed, yours
could be counted as the "real" one

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Stas Malyshev wrote:
>
> > On 8/7/11 2:13 PM, Richard Quadling wrote:
> >
> > You can build single-source workflows around DCVS too. The fact that
> > everybody is keeping the copy of the history doesn't mean there can't
> > be one "main" repository. The point of DCVS is not as much in doing
> > different things from what we're doing now as doing roughly the same
> > things in a better way - more efficiently.
> >
> > > The main thing I'm worried about is if feature X splits the core devs
> > > so much that there are 2 competing repos, both with a significant
> > > number of core devs supporting each repo, how do I choose which is
> > > which? If my abilities include being able to code at the core level,
> > > which should I support? Both? All 3, 4 or 10 different forks?
> >
> > This can happen right now - take the code, put it on any of the hosting
> > facilities and declare yourself the new king of PHP.
>
> But you can't call it PHP anymore due to the license, where as with a
> DCVS with people having forks on publically accessible repositories,
> everybody is basically violating the license.
>
> I share Richard's concerns about finding out "what is the real one"/best
> one/latest one.
>
> Most recently I found that out with two related PHP projects:
>
> https://github.com/preinheimer/xhprof vs
> https://github.com/facebook/xhprof
>
> and:
> https://github.com/corretge/xdebug-trace-gui or
> https://github.com/beberlei/xdebug-trace-gui or
> http://www.rdlt.com/xdebug-trace-file-parser.html
>
> regards,
> Derick
>
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