On 07/03/2013 10:42 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
You are correct. These are bundled libraries, not forks. And not
just
because of the same name... Forking is a bad idea unless upstreams are
unable to work together. So if there's something like a bugfix that's
needed, we (The Fedora Packaging Committee) would want to know why the
change hasn't gone into the other package (ie: grit) as the bugfix would
presumably hekp out other consumers of grit as well.
In the case of grit, upstream
has almost 'abandoned' the project.
You can see that the commit history [0]is very sparse and of the 111 issues
on the issue tracker [1] more than the half of them are Pull Requests
that either
fix some bugs or enhance the app.
As far as I know, GitLab will switch to rugged [2], but that is not
going to happen
for another year as it still lacks some needed functionality. Therefore
the grit fork.
[0]
https://github.com/mojombo/grit/commits/master
[1]
https://github.com/mojombo/grit/issues
[2]
https://github.com/libgit2/rugged
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