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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Bundle of external apps tweaked for Xtreme.
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> This repository serves only as a way to keep them updated and maintained easier.
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### Why?
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-Apps we use for Xtreme are all modified (some lots more than others). This includes:
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+Apps we include in Xtreme are all modified (some lots more than others). This includes:
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- Removing duplicate icons that are part of firmware to **support our Asset Packs system**
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- Removing duplicate keyboard implementations to **use our extended system keyboard**
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- With our system keyboard also **support our CLI command `input keyboard`** to type with PC keyboard
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@@ -17,11 +17,14 @@ Apps we use for Xtreme are all modified (some lots more than others). This inclu
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- **Updating and fixing apps** that were abandoned by the original developers
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### How?
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-**Apps made by the Xtreme team are kept as plain code here. For all others we use git subtrees to pull updates from elsewhere but also keep our own tweaks.**
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+**Apps made by the Xtreme team are developed right here, the latest versions will always originate from this repository.**
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+**For all other apps we use git subtrees to pull updates from the creator's repository / other sources such as [@xMasterX's pack](https://github.com/xMasterX/all-the-plugins), while also keeping our own tweaks and additions.**
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We didn't want to have fork repos for each single app since it would get out of hand very quick. Instead, we opted for subtrees.
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-Subtrees work in a very peculiar way, where they pull and compare commit history from a remote repo and apply it to a subdirectory of this repo.
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-That's why the commit history for our repo is so huge, it contains all the commits for all the apps, plus our edits.
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+Subtrees work in a very peculiar way: they pull and compare commit history from a remote repo and apply it to a subdirectory of this repo.
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+That's why the commit history for this repo is so huge, it contains all the commits for all the apps, plus our edits.
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To make updating more manageable, we have added another layer on top of subtrees:
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- add a new app with `.utils/add-subtree.sh <path> <repo url> <branch> [subdir]`, this will pull the history and create `path/.gitsubtree` to remember the url, branch and subdir
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Willy-JL