How is "GitIndexFileParser" related to "gin"?

[me-kell]

How is wahlflo/GitIndexFileParser related to sbp/gin?

The files GitIndexFileParser/git_index_parser/parser.py and sbp/gin/gin have many common lines of code and even common comments.

Is wahlflo/GitIndexFileParser based on or a further development of sbp/gin?

Please clarify the authorship and the license issues.

[wahlflo]

Hi @me-kell really good question. It's the first time I'm hearing from the gin project but it really looks quite similar 😄
I would guess I based my implementation on an excerpt of the gin script I stumbled upon while googling without really knowing it... so it is kind of based on gin.

Unfortunately, the gin project has no Licence (sbp/gin#5)

Not sure how this issue can be solved. I mean I can refactor the code to make it look "different" but of course it will do the same in the end as the git index file is a clear structured file which is good documented (https://git-scm.com/docs/index-format) and thus can be parsed by anybody - so not sure who much "intellectual property" is in the gin project or mine at all.