From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Marco Costalba" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] qgit4 aka qgit ported to Windows Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:30:34 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200701092255.17091.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "GIT list" , "Petr Baudis" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 09 23:30:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H4PUM-0003N7-Fw for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:30:38 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932478AbXAIWag (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:30:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932474AbXAIWag (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:30:36 -0500 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.226]:63911 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932478AbXAIWaf (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:30:35 -0500 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so4109529nze for ; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:30:34 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UgBnKpJ/lCKBuomdb1VFd4qH5YnWyxCVtidBGb2q/WQikusQUlXh8hK2h/rBtN42KTcAfqqRdcgXSUtvRB3wcf3atVKn24UofGwu+XJ9im9XA/aOC7OWedXwcvW+JtlP4ms6kQzc9ET2bWhQI/NYyvcjj1G/ZsNrVuBpy0qw+aA= Received: by 10.35.101.1 with SMTP id d1mr51791344pym.1168381834543; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:30:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.42.4 with HTTP; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 14:30:34 -0800 (PST) To: "Josef Weidendorfer" In-Reply-To: <200701092255.17091.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 1/9/07, Josef Weidendorfer 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