From: Ping Yin Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 15:55:06 GMT Subject: Re: git subtree: an alternative to git submodule Message-ID: <46dff0320905180855m3e1bd74esb564af0fbcf4b1ff@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <32541b130905151131h76048ff2o418764aa41bcd13b@mail.gmail.com> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Avery Pennarun wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Avery Pennarun writes: >>> ...  Obviously I would need to write a man page, but I've been >>> hesitant to do that in case people have suggestions that need the >>> whole UI to change.  Perhaps that's a chicken-and-egg problem, though,... >> >> If you fear that you might get into a situation that the UI _must_ change >> because it does not fit people's needs or workflows, that is a sign that >> the UI and the workflow it was designed to support may not have been well >> thought out yet.  At least, you do not even _know_ if it is well thought >> out or not.  It is understandable that people would say "sounds cool, >> could potentially be good, but I'll wait and see if it is real" and leave. > > Well, I'm already using it myself in my own projects and I like it. > So I'm pretty confident that it is *a* useful workflow.  Whether it's > useful for others is a good question, and the only way to know the > answer is to put it out there. > > But I'm at a bit of a loss as to why so many people (er, as compared > to none) seem to have gotten excited about the tool, but then it > fizzled.  This implies to me that something is missing.  Perhaps it's > just the documentation; I'll work on that next, then. > It's really a cool feature, but i havn't tried it. Why? It will spends me some time saving and applying the patches and then testing it (i don't have the appropriate environment setuped). But I am busy and there is no urgent need to use this feature ( it is only a rare case for me). So i will wait until i need the feature or there is an easy to fetch the code ( pu of official reposotory or other repository with these patches applied). I don't whether this is a common reason, but at least it is the reason for me.