• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    What’s the difference between a soft fork and a hard fork, besides being careful with your teeth?

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      3 months ago

      Soft forks try to maintain code compatible so changes can apply to both code bases. Normally done when there’s hope of a future merging of the code lines. They rarely work, as eventually thing get hard.