fork marlin in separate git repo for easier comparison

[aveseli]

Dear bigtreetech team

I have a suggestions: could you fork marlin directly into a new git repo, so we could easy compare the changes done in marlin and the changes you did to make it work on the skr min e3.

For example:

• One repository only for the marlin firmware: bigtreetech/bigtreetech-skr-mini-e3-v12-firmware (direct fork from marlin)
• Another repository for the documentation: bigtreetech/bigtreetech-skr-mini-e3-v12-documentation (only documenation)

What do you think on this?

[bojanpotocnik]

+1

I have done exactly this with Marlin/bugfix-2.0.x_SKR-mini-E3-V1.2 my because it seems like BTT Team is not the most active. There I rebase the official Marlin bugfix-2.0.x every day or few days.
After [BUG] Z homing with BLTouch and Z-endstop switch is resolved I will also make bugfix-2.0.x_SKR-mini-E3-V1.2_BLTouch branch (which I will regularly rebase on my bugfix-2.0.x_SKR-mini-E3-V1.2) as a default working FW for SKR Mini E3 v1.2 with BLTouch.

[swilkens]

Even better, don't try to maintain a fork - just create pull requests and make sure upstream marlin works for this board.