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Ask HN: Term for Forking Because of a Schism?

1 pointsby suchowover 2 years ago
There&#x27;s a term on the tip of my tongue and I am hoping you all can help me out.<p>On GitHub, or with any open-source software project more generally, when one group of developers forks a project because they are unhappy with its direction, it is sometimes times informally called… what? The term is generally used to describe the act of creating a new project from an existing one, due to dissatisfaction with the original project&#x27;s direction. I think it fits the pattern *forking, but I&#x27;m not positive.

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