From: Jens Lehmann Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:10:59 GMT Subject: Re: Avery Pennarun's git-subtree? Message-ID: <4C49B103.2010002@web.de> In-Reply-To: Am 22.07.2010 23:33, schrieb Avery Pennarun: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > wrote: >> But it's also clear that we have a lot of tribal knowledge about the >> lackings of git submodule / git subtree. It would be *really* useful >> if people like Avery and Jens which have obviously thought hard about >> the submodule/subtree issues would draft up some (calmly written) docs >> about how the two differ (with comparison tables etc.). >> >> That'd be a very helpful resource for Git users in deciding which one >> to use. > > I think I'm too biased to write that, but if someone else wants to > take the lead, I could certainly contribute. While I don't consider myself biased, I just don't know enough about the details of the subtree approach to write that. But I would certainly contribute to the submodule side of such a document too.