Re: [PATCH 0/4] subtree: move out of contrib

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 30, 2018, 22:21 UTC
Message-ID: <87d0ygz66w.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAHqTa-1KCsbG=6T8M0PLuM5s-j972jiv=vvZHUiwOxwgpPWJeA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 30 2018, Avery Pennarun wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
> There's one exception, which is doing a one-time permanent merge of
> two projects into one.  That's a nice feature, but is probably used
> extremely rarely.

FWIW this is the only thing I've used it for. I do this occasionally and used to do this manually with format-patch + "perl -pe" before or similar when I needed to merge some repositories together, and then some other times I was less stupid and manually started doing something similar to what subtree is doing with a "move everything" commit just before the merge of the two histories.

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>> https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=git%20subtree,git%20submodule
>>
>> Not sure what to make of this data.
>
> Clearly people need a lot more help when using submodules than when
> using subtree :)

Pretty clear it's garbage data, unless we're to believe that the relative interest of submodules in the US, Germany and Sweden is 51, 64 & 84, but 75, 100 and 0 for subtree.