On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 06:03, Derek P. Moore wrote:
If we try to put them both in a single tree, many files will be duplicated as work progresses, so we'll have an effect similar to working on separate trees.
With the important difference that any duplicated work would become more obvious. Right now we have a big problem of work being done in normal HEAD not getting picked up in the other tree.
Formally splitting trees would just aggravate the issue.
At least when you have the files more or less side-by-side duplication will be more obvious and also easier to fix (as you won't have to shuffle two different checkouts).
I don't think we have to worry much about a "divergence" between the two codebases or other such concerns that have come up with regard to the Gtkmm work.
Well, as I noted it's already a problem...
-mental