On 10/20/2015 03:34 AM, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > On 15/10/15 19:42, Paul Varner wrote: > > Over the last couple of days, I have done the following: > > > 1. Migrated the gentoolkit-dev branch to its own gentoolkit-dev.git > > repository > > 2. Moved the gentoolkit branch to master on the > > gentoolkit.git repository > Why did you not just make gentoolkit master, and leave gentoolkit-dev as > a branch? That's certainly the common way of using git. >
Mainly, because at this point gentoolkit and gentoolkit-dev are now almost completely separate code bases as well as being separate packages. They share a common ancestry and that can be seen looking through the commit log, but starting with gentoolkit-0.2.5, gentoolkit started migrating to python as the only scripting language and utilizing the Portage API with setuptools as the build system. The two remaining bash scripts are being rewritten in python and when that is complete, they will be completely separate code bases. gentoolkit-dev has stayed as a collection of stand-alone scripts written in multiple languages intended mainly for Gentoo developers. Since they really do not share any code anymore, it did not make sense to me keeping gentoolkit-dev as a branch and it should be in its own repository. Regards, Paul .
