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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)

Stas Malyshev wrote:
>> Actually the real question here is WHY create a fork on github at all?
>> The copy
> Pull requests, for one.
Push/Pull from local copy?
My point was that many of the forks currently ON github are simply not required?

>> 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
>
> I think you confusing "not absolutely required" and "redundant" :) Of
> course you could do without any infrastructure github provides. But it
> makes life so much easier. Especially when you are working in a team
> bigger than 1 person.
The TEAM has a master copy on github or better still git.php.net, but you don't 
need 10000 other copies on github as well? I don't like the code Drupal produce, 
but the framework for code management is only let down by being git based :) 
Sandboxes and development branches are the right way to go, but could actually 
be provided in a DVCS agnostic way on a php.net framework? hg.php.net + 
git.php.net in parallel ... with the existing packaged distributions for those 
who do not need code access?

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