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Newton Dynamics is an integrated solution for real time simulation of physics environments.
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Why are newton 3.14 and newton 4.0 subfolders? #228

Open jonesmz opened 3 years ago

jonesmz commented 3 years ago

Shouldn't these be branches of the git repository?

JulioJerez commented 3 years ago

maybe, but what is the difference?

tombish commented 3 years ago

For me the bigger issue is the size of the repository. It sits at over 500MB and takes some considerable time to download. Moving 3.14 into its own branch would help. Also perhaps you could split example code/binary resources into their own repository.

jonesmz commented 3 years ago

Another difference is that if someone is tracking, specifically, 3.14 or 4.0, they wouldn't want to see differences for the other codebase in their diff viewer.

Keeping them as separate branches helps keep things simple for the person using the code.

100espressos commented 2 years ago

Perhaps this issue can be closed/continued in a similar one, with a possible workaround posted. https://github.com/MADEAPPS/newton-dynamics/issues/254#issuecomment-963393724

jonesmz commented 2 years ago

I would still prefer to see newton remove the 3.14 folder from the branches of the repository that contain the 4.0 code.

The whole point of git's branch capabilities is to support having different series of the code in different branches. Making them folders in the same branch is very much not useful.