Fork Test

A smart contract is a set of commitments that are defined in digital form, including the agreement on how contract participants shall fulfill these commitments.

Confused by forking. Only the top paragraph copied. Maybe I can't fork the doc I created, yet Ward added considerable more to it (on the forked copy).

Ward: The forking thing is a consequence of two principles: collaborative links and everything is editable. Say you start on your own site, browse a bit and then make an edit. Your change goes to your site, the origin, where you logged in. Say you start on your own site, browse a bit and then make an edit to someone else page. Your change goes to your site, the origin, where you logged in. Say you start on your own site, browse a bit and then find a page you want to keep in your site. You click fork. The unchanged page goes to your site, the origin, where you logged in. Notice that the journal remembers where the page came from so that it can follow links back there even when viewing the forked page on your own site. This is the “collaborative link”. Things are different if you don’t login to your site or start at some other site where you can’t login. But we find a way to make these cases similar.

Many of our more interesting workflows come from exploiting the way pages move around the federation. Its unusual because most web site operators don’t want you to leave their site. Their business model is based on you not leaving. Another interesting case is pulling up an older revision from history and forking that. The early version becomes the version and subsequent history is lost. Something to remember, the Journal tells how a page got to be what it is now, not everything that ever happened to it.