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Do you know why it's a fork? Als, from this https://github.com/ROCm/llvm-project/commits/amd-staging/ it looks like it might be more appropriately called a staging branch than a fork.




Various reasons, like embargoes on information, stuff we didn't want to wait for review on before shipping, or features that don't make sense for upstream like `hipcc` which is an `nvcc` wrapper.

Our goal is to get most modifications not in the third category into upstream at some point which makes the maintenance load bearable.




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