As the flurry of discussion of "forks" starts to ebb, it occurred to me there is a conflict between how Fossil defines "fork" and how many open source project define "fork".
Fossil defines "fork" as an accidental, unintended "branch" in the commit history. But, to many in the open source community (and other SW development communities), a "fork" is an intentional split from the commit history to either create a development branch or to create a new project from an existing one. Example: Devuan Linux is a fork of Debian Linux (in contrast to Ubuntu, which is (was?) a down stream derivative of Debian). Also, there's the much older "fork in the road", referring a connected road going in a different direction. Unfortunately, I had no luck finding any better term for what Fossil calls a "fork". (My search-fu maybe off this morning.)
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