Upstream Merge

Noun · Open Source

Definitions

  1. The act of merging changes from an upstream project into a downstream fork, branch, or maintained copy. In long-lived forks, upstream merges are where divergence costs become painfully visible.

    In plain English: Merging changes from the upstream project into a local fork or copy.

    Example: "The quarterly upstream merge took longer than expected because years of local patches had drifted away from the assumptions in the main project."

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