Raymond Chen on cutting loose with a copy of the code
Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has dropped another nugget of Microspeak – the"fun fork."" is a code branch that will never get merged back into the parent, one where engineers can try out their wild and wacky ideas without fear of their code somehow turning up in production.
According to Chen:"The term 'fork' comes from an old internal Microsoft source control system that did not support branches, so the only option was to fork the entire code base."
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