From: Ping Yin Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 15:55:37 GMT Subject: Re: git subtree: an alternative to git submodule Message-ID: <46dff0320905180855n1d772cb8sea69c7d5f47713e3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46dff0320905180855m3e1bd74esb564af0fbcf4b1ff@mail.gmail.com> Ping Yin On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Ping Yin wrote: > 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. > s/dont't/don't know/