Re: Subtree in Git

> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Paul Campbell <pcampbell@kemitix.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Kindjal <kindjal@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> David Michael Barr <b <at> rr-dav.id.au> writes:
>>>
>>>> From a quick survey, it appears there are no more than 55 patches
>>>> squashed into the submitted patch.
>>>> As I have an interest in git-subtree for maintaining the out-of-tree
>>>> version of vcs-svn/ and a desire to improve my rebase-fu, I am tempted
>>>> to make some sense of the organic growth that happened on GitHub.
>>>> It doesn't appear that anyone else is willing to do this, so I doubt
>>>> there will be any duplication of effort.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What is the status of the work on git-subtree described in this thread?
>>> It looks like it's stalled.
>>>
>>
>> I hadn't been aware of that patch. Reading the thread David Michael
>> Barr was going to try picking the patch apart into sensible chunks.
>>
>
> Sorry for not updating the thread. I did end up moving onto other things.
> I quickly realised the reason for globbing all the patches together was
> that the individual patches were not well contained.
> That is single patches with multiple unrelated changes and multiple
> patches changing the same things in different directions.
> To me this means that the first step is to curate the history.
>
>> If this work is still needing done I'd like to volunteer.
>
> You're most welcome. Sorry again for abandoning the thread.
>
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> David Michael Barr