"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> writes: > From: "Matthieu Moy" <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> I don't think you will find a name that fits all use-cases. IHMO, best >> is to pick one rather general use-case, make the explanations for it, >> and maybe explain somewhere that there are variants. >> >> If the fork is completely private, then your diagram with a "maintainer" >> arrow from it to upstream is not valid. > > That's only true for a Pull Request workflow. For a Patch workflow > (such as Git) the user's home vault can be completely private. But then the maintainer is not the one picking changes from it (you're sending them by email), so the "maintainer" label is not really accurate in the diagram: +------------ ----------- +| UPSTREAM | maintainer | ORIGIN | +| git/git |- - - - - - - -| me/git | +------------ ← ----------- + \ / + \ / + fetch↓\ /↑push + \ / + \ / + ------------- + | LOCAL | + ------------- -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html