On Nov 9, 2019, at 11:00, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > But we would probably want to > prefix the repository names (something like "fork_qt", "fork_llvm") to > clearly distinguish them from our main repositories.
I wouldn't necessarily suggest doing that. We're not forking in order to diverge from upstream and evolve the software into a different product. We're only doing it to apply bug fixes. > Is it possible to > set up a cron job to keep the upstream branches and tags fully up to > date (but without deleting our own branches, and ideally without > accumulating deleted upstream branches)? Given how pervasive git is today, there probably is. But syncing out fork with upstream seems like a normal task that a developer would be expected to do manually at their convenience.
