search

videosegmentation / video_segment

Main repository for The Video Segmentation Project
Other
167 stars 80 forks source link

Why are you forking? #7

Closed bootchk closed 9 years ago

bootchk commented 9 years ago

When you fork, do you need to update the README to say why your are forking?

I suppose many people just fork all their work and don't bother to try to merge it back into the original.

This social programming stuff is beyond me just yet.

dcastro9 commented 9 years ago

I generally fork when I want to test updates out and keep track of my commits in case I need to debug, etc. I will eventually be merging back with the original when I figure out what commits are beneficial, I just don't want to pollute the original before I am certain as to what would be beneficial.

bootchk commented 9 years ago

Sorry, I made a mistake. I thought I was opening an issue on a fork of your project (made by someone I know personally, also on Github.) If anything good comes of my fiasco, it is that I will try to convince him to merge his changes back to the original also. Again, my apologies and I'm closing this issue. But I am trying to understand the social aspect: when one should just clone the project to a local computer, and then possible push back to the original, or fork publicly on github.