Separating revisions into individual branches

[Selbi182]

(This follows the discussion started here: #160)

We've decided to move the official revisions of Sonic 1 to individual branches, rather than having them all be part of the same one and be controlled by a build flag. This is to make the source code less cluttered with if-else conditions, which are annoying to read and work with when making ROM hacks.

The question is how exactly we want this to be done. Copying what I've said in my original comment, here's what I've been proposing:

Here's a proposal:

• Get rid of REVXB entirely (maybe leave some comments about it). It's way too small to deserve an entire branch, let alone three. That's not even to mention how pointless REVXB is to begin with, only featuring that one dirty as hell spike bug fix hex edit that's instantly obsoleted by adding two lines of code.
• ProjectSonic1TwoEight is already a special thing, so I'd suggest we just sanitize the existing branch to only contain the REV01 stuff.
• AS and asm68k both should get a new branch each for REV00, with the new branch names suffixed by .rev00 (sort of how SonLVL does it). The existing branches should not be renamed to make it apparent that they are the default ones.

Clownacy has mentioned concerns about REVXB getting dropped entirely, so I guess this is where we more discussion is necessary. I still think it's pretty redundant to keep an entire branch for one tiny, poorly-implemented spike bug fix, but I can see the explanation of it being technically official as valid.

I'm still open for thoughts, though.

[Brainulator9]

Where was the decision finalized, by chance?

[Selbi182]

The decision wasn't ever finalized, it was just an idea that needed some discussion. We still haven't fully decided on whether this will actually be done.

[Ushupiuck]

Whilst I do like this idea, this opens the doors for maintainability hell: How do you ensure commits to one branch, are reflected on the others? Ie.: your current documentation efforts (Which by the way -- you've been on fire as of late)