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Re: [ANNOUNCE] qgit4 aka qgit ported to Windows

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MCMarco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 9, 2007, 22:30 UTC
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<200701092255.17091.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
On 1/9/07, Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> wrote:
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> 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
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Message 3 of 13 in “[ANNOUNCE] qgit4 aka qgit ported to Windows”
  1. Marco CostalbaJan 9, 2007
  2. Josef WeidendorferJan 9, 2007
  3. Marco CostalbaJan 9, 2007
  4. Yann DirsonJan 9, 2007
  5. Martin LanghoffJan 10, 2007
  6. Johannes SchindelinJan 11, 2007
  7. MinGW port (was: Re: [ANNOUNCE] qgit4 aka qgit ported to Windows)Johannes Sixt, Jan 11, 2007
  8. Johannes SchindelinJan 11, 2007
  9. Marco CostalbaJan 11, 2007
  10. Johannes SixtJan 11, 2007
  11. Marco CostalbaJan 11, 2007
  12. Andreas EricssonJan 11, 2007
  13. Marco CostalbaJan 11, 2007

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