Quote from: bitsolutions on May 11, 2015, 06:09:12 PM

Quote from: 7queue on May 11, 2015, 06:06:35 PM

Was there a gminer that these two, c & bf, forked from?

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Cgminer was forked from cpuminer and bfgminer forked from cgminer.

cgminer was forked from cpuminer.
bfgminer (the name I came up with and he stole from me) was forked from cgminer.

Fork:
https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/commit/b9df56511c7bd1a2e1f075e9c184c1a4b0f1ba20

Luke's lies proven to be lies:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78192.msg1467026#msg1467026

Basically what happened was:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg1000946#msg1000946

Which in short version is:
1) I updated the icarus software in my git and talked about it in IRC in the channel where we discussed #cgminer
and it was tested on the biggest collection of icarus boards anyone knew about - by xiangfu
2) About a month later luke-jr created a pull request for the same change.
His code hadn't been tested on windows at all (which he said himself) and didn't work on windows.
3) I tested my code in my git on windows after getting my windows build environment working again
(my windows build environment had been dead for about a month so I hadn't pushed my changes to master cgminer yet)
and I found my code didn't work properly on windows either and made a change to fix it in my git
4) I tried my fix on his version on windows and it didn't work.
5) I created a pull request to master with my code (with the windows fix) that overrode his changes
6) He forked cgminer basically because of this.

My IRC comments in the cgminer channel coming up with the BFGMiner name well before the fork:

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01:17 < luke-jr> good for them. no distro gets preference
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14:16 < Sharky112065> Hmm.. I think conman should change cgminer's name to FGMiner.
14:16 < kanoi> FUMiner :)
14:17 < Sharky112065> :P
14:17 < kanoi> though GFMiner works as well :)
14:17 < Sharky112065> Well if it was FGMiner people could go either way ... FPGA/GPU Miner or Fucking Good/Great Miner.
14:18 < kanoi> BFGMiner? :)
14:18 < Sharky112065> Ah I see Great Fucking Miner works too :P
14:18 < Sharky112065> Oh I like that
14:19 < kanoi> B for bitcoin of course :)
14:19 < Sharky112065> Oh I thought you ment bfl
14:19 < kanoi> BFG the most well known acronym to FPS'ers :)
14:20 < kanoi> but also Bitcoin FPGA GPU :)
14:20 < Sharky112065> yep. I know.
14:20 < Sharky112065> Ie Big Fucking Gun
14:20 < kanoi> hmm I'm liking that name more and more :)
14:20 < kanoi> Yep
14:21 < kanoi> I'll suggest that V3.0 be BFGMiner - heh great idea IMO :)
14:22 < Sharky112065> Yep. I agree.
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... and an amusing post ...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg1369274#msg1369274