Document network forking status#957
Closed
leighmcculloch wants to merge 2 commits into
Closed
Conversation
This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
Sign up for free
to join this conversation on GitHub.
Already have an account?
Sign in to comment
1 participant
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
What
Add a "Forking a network" section to the README that explains what forking a network means in the Foundry/Anvil sense, states plainly that quickstart has no turnkey fork mode today, points to the snapshot-based workflow available now through the Stellar CLI and Soroban Rust SDK for testing against real network state, and enumerates the stellar-core capabilities a real fork mode still depends on along with the reason the network passphrase must stay the same.
Why
Issue #625 has accumulated years of design discussion but no landed capability, and users repeatedly arrive expecting a
docker run stellar/quickstart --fork mainnetflow that does not exist, then report that the closest thing today is undocumented and hard to use. A turnkey fork mode cannot be built in this repository because it hinges on stellar-core work that does not exist yet (stopping core at a chosen non-checkpoint ledger, overriding ledger entries to reset and fund the root account, and accepting transactions without the real signers), so the concrete, shippable step now is to set accurate expectations in the documentation: describe what forking would be, what is genuinely achievable today, and precisely what is blocked and why, with links to the tracking issue so users can follow or contribute to the design.Relates to #625
Generated by Claude Code