In short, if there are no false positive notifications on forks the fallout from this change should really be very minimal and the benefits for those who need it are substantial.
The long-winded response: Mark Twain said it well, “I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” For a very small number of fossil users switching to the fork-alert code the experience will go something like this: "oh, I have a fork, I had no idea.", ten minutes later they will have found the fork, smiled at how now they now understand why they had to implement such-and-such a feature twice, closed or merged the fork and they move on. For folks working in intensely busy repos who have been burned before by forks the experience will be a little better, they will now get more timely alerts when a fork happens. This is far from ideal (the forks should not be happening IMHO) but at least they won't sit on potential timebombs for extended periods of time as they can fix the forks in near real time. -=- Matt On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Ron W <ronw.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Andy Bradford <amb-fos...@bradfords.org> > wrote: > >> What if the fork is intentially left unhandled? This means that all >> parties will be alerted to the fact that there exists a fork because it >> was intentionally left a fork. Is this acceptable? Will this be >> confusing for anonymous or other users of a given repository when the >> developers intentionally leave a fork and they get a warning about it >> the next time they sync? >> > > Off hand, the only reason I can think for intentionally leaving the fork a > fork would be so the warning continues to be displayed. Otherwise, I would > expect the devs to give it a proper, new branch name. > > I don't think this is something we can do anything about. > > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > >
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