[Nix-dev] Repo for incomplete/unmaintained work

Shea Levy shea at shealevy.com
Sun Apr 6 12:42:08 CEST 2014


A branch suggests merging, but really there will be tons of merges
*into* to branch and only ever be cherry-picks *out of* the branch,
which IMO negates most of the benefits of having it be in the same repo.

On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 10:17:45AM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 03:46:20PM -0400, Shea Levy wrote:
> > Thoughts on the idea? Any idea for a name for the repo? Eelco, would you
> > be able to make the repo if you think this is a good approach?
> 
> Is a whole other repo really necessary? Why not just a branch of
> nixpkgs?
> 
> Matthew
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