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by dmos :: Rate this Message:

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The funny thing is that with github, you don't need 'committer' access to have your own 'branch'. Steve is hosting his version at http://gist.github.com/sappling/gradle/tree/master, which is actually downstream from yours ;) (in case you didn't notice).

(I came over it while looking from which repo I could fork my own patches).

And would just like to congratulate the Gradle team on the how to contribute page. I didn't very often submit patches to OSS projects, usually because the things I have issues with are either tiny or I it's discussed in depth on the mailinglist. The ability to sport my own repository of Gradle in about 10 seconds, and have a patch uploaded a couple of minutes later help me personally a lot to lower the barrier for participation.

Cheers,
-Daniel

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Russel Winder <russel.winder@...> wrote:
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 07:46 -0400, Steve Appling wrote:

> Our fork is intended to be temporary.  We have discussed several of our concerns
>   with Hans and I think all of our needs will be met in a future release
> (hopefully 0.7).  We just couldn't get everything addressed in 0.6.  The fork is
> a way for us to apply our own bug fixes in an timely manner and try out ideas
> for new features we need.

Sounds exactly like what branches are for :-)

The bug fixes perhaps should just be applied to trunk anyway, that would
leave this as a feature branch.

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