It happens sometimes that you need to split (aka "fork") a project of from the original source base. This split (aka "fork") is supposed to then become a distinct project on it's own, and should never again rub shoulders with the original parent project.
Personally, I *despise* this situation, since it boils down to "copy-paste-modify" projects. It is usually a direct result of a surprise (and URGENT) request/need from sales people to have a "skinned" version of an existing product/system to demo to potential clients. The problem is that these abominations quite frequently then get sold - you know...*skinned*. But that "skinning" usually means EXTENSIVE changes and customizations - so much so that letting any of that code touch the original source would probably result in the universe imploding. SO if there was a way to make a branch that could never-every be merged into master (for example) that would sorta help. But would not completely solve it. The only work-a-round I can think of atm is to push a branch to newly created project....which could work, and would be technically what I need, but feels very kludgy. On Saturday, 1 June 2013 02:00:49 UTC+2, Aaron Cook wrote: > > What is the benefit of forking as opposed to branching in a small gitlab > server case? > > On Friday, May 31, 2013 8:40:50 AM UTC-4, Peter Cole wrote: > >> I was extremely excited for v5.2 to drop so I would finally be able to >> fork, which I assumed would be like GitHub or BitBucket. Instead, you >> apparently fork with no ties to the original project and cannot create >> merge requests between the two projects. Am I missing something? How is >> this useful? >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitLab" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gitlabhq+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/a7f22326-6e10-4757-9a90-35a625a709a1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
