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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Choosing a distributed version control system
 for PHP (or not). Call for Participation.
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Johannes Schlüter wrote:
>> Actually the real question here is WHY create a fork on github at all? The copy
>> >  you are working on LOCALLY is the fork that you are developing on? Much of the
>> >  stuff on github and the other DVCS server sites is redundant? You only need to
>> >  publish your local changes to other developers who are working with you not to
>> >  the whole world?
> since i can publish an experimental feature, get it
> reviewed/tested/improved before pushing it to the main tree.
>
> Mind that "other developers who are working with you" is potentially
> everybody on this list;-)

But that is the point ... if everybody has their own published 'experimental 
feature' repos, syncing those bits we are playing with looks like a nightmare? 
Surly the point of DVCS is we share via some central pot, and these experimental 
branches exist there? Having to keep track of who's bits you are playing with is 
the messy bit :( And it's that which has caused problems with other projects, 
where 'extensions' have grown in secondary repos ... and become the official 
extension. That is what I think people are just trying to flag up.

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