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You are correct. However - it is pretty rare that we need to make a change to a template. Most changes that take place are to styling and the main thing about a child theme is, of course, that you only need to add any CSS rules that you actually want to override.

What can happen, of course, is that we may develop and offer a new plugin that you may want to add to your forum which may entail an entry in a template. 

With every update to SP we do publish a 'change' document in our Codex which details any changes, new features etc., This is specifically targeted at custom theme users to help them identify anything they may wish to change or add. But we do try very hard to minimise any such changes.

Two things I would say is that Reboot - being very new - may have the odd template change in the early days simply in response to issues that may arise while bedding in. The other is that because of the structure of Reboot if you did make a change, say, to spHeadDesktop.php then you would also need to localise spHeadMobile.php and, indeed, spHead.php in the root templates folder. This is different to previous themes where mobile and desktop was not split out but is, hopefully, the paradigm we will employ in all future themes.

And finally! Reboot is also our first theme where you can create an overlay in your chile theme and make use of that.

The main Codex article for child themes is being planned and written as I type so hopefully the proper and full set if instruction will be available soon.

Sorry yes... bad choice of words.