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Re: git-subtree

From
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 5, 2012, 15:32 UTC
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Hi again,
[+CC: Junio Hamano, our maintainer]
David A. Greene wrote:
> I've read that document.  The issue is that I didn't develop the code,
> Avery did.
Not an issue as long as you have Avery's signoff.
> It's a lot of time to learn a
> completely new codebase.  I was hoping to submit something soon and then
> learn the codebase gradually during maintenance/further development.

We certainly don't want badly reviewed code that nobody understands floating around in the codebase- so, I'd suggest sending out whatever you think is appropriate for the first round of reviews, and see how things shape up from there.

> How have completely new tools be introduced into the git mainline in the
> past?

Yes. For an example of something I was involved with but didn't author, see vcs-svn/.

-- Ram
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