From: Andrey Smirnov Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:46:07 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 1/2] Add 'git subtree' command for tracking history of subtrees separately. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <32541b130907170847g67c89d54ke9426ed8da26a9aa@mail.gmail.com> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Avery Pennarun wrote: > The problem is that test-split and test-split-old are completely > unrelated trees that have similar-looking files but no common > ancestry. I understand this but if two projects share the same commit history for their subdir-lib both test-split and test-split-old will have same root. > git-rebase tries to be cleverer, and starts comparing patches and file > similarities so it can graft one tree onto another, That is too clear for me and since I try to avoid committing 'reversion commits' it works for my workflow. I don't want to track library as separate ref (at least now). Anyway thank you for great extension - will now try using it on a regular basis - there're another project that is more suitable to track libraries as you suggest. -- Sincerly yours, Andrey.