Re: How to create independent branches

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:

Wouldn't it be better to separate it to two distinct public repositories
as well? It's confusing people and encouraging a practice that really
isn't very feasible and practical in Git.

That's mainly historical.  I haven't bothered to check it
recently, but /pub/scm/git was not writable by me on kernel.org
machine, only /pub/scm/git/git.git/ was.