Re: [ANNOUNCE] qgit4 aka qgit ported to Windows

["Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com>]

On 1/9/07, Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 January 2007 22:14, Marco Costalba wrote:
> > I have setup, (thanks Pasky) the repository
> >
> >      git://repo.or.cz/qgit4.git
> >
> >
> > With an experimental version of qgit, called qgit4.
>
> Nice.
>
> Why not as branch in the original qgit repository?
> You are losing all your history this way.
>

Well, Qt4 it's completely different from Qt3, porting it's a nice way
to say rewrite. So moving patches between the two branches it's very
difficult already now and it will be impossible in a near future not
because of development forking, but because of API. This means two
different and *not mergeable* branches.

Being not mergeable they lose the main motivation to be in the same
repository IMHO. Also I would like to continue to support and improve
the stable and proven Qt3 version on kernel.org that is and will be
the main version.

Perhaps when qgit4 will be stable enough I will ask to move to
kernel.org but now, for easier development I asked to Pasky, that
kindly accepted, to host this repo.

Marco