Subject: Fork of maxima for make it more embeddable.
From: Rupert Swarbrick
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:18:22 +0000
Leo Butler <l_butler at users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick at gmail.com> writes:
>> Michael Filonenko <filonenko.mikhail at gmail.com> writes:
>>> Goal of fork to provide maxima from quicklisp. Maxima big project and I
>>> need community opinion about fork. I am ready to merge my changes with
>>> main repo. Only non-mathematical parts were changed by me.
>>
>> Hmm. Well, a public github fork is a pretty awful way to develop
>> features on changing code unless that code is also in github. How are
>> you going to incorporate changes to core maxima into your fork without
>> rewriting history?
>
> @Rupert: I am not really certain of your meaning here. Git can
> accomodate multiple upstream repositories. So long as he has forked
> things correctly, he can pull in updates from sourceforge, and merge
> these onto his development branch which is on github. This work can be
> merged into the sourceforge repository without re-writing anyone's
> history -- that is the nice thing about rebasing.
Yes, but github forks are public repositories, so if you rebase you
screw up the repository of anyone trying to follow you...
Rupert
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