From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 22:21:27 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] subtree: move out of contrib Message-ID: <87d0ygz66w.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Mon, Apr 30 2018, Avery Pennarun wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Stefan Beller 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. >> 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.