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Re: Android needs repo, Chrome needs gclient. Neither work. What does that say about git?

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 20, 2009, 12:46 UTC
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Adrian May <adrian.alexander.may@gmail.com> writes:
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> Git is just plain wrong, because you can't split or merge repositories
> or pull subtrees of them. It doesn't have the kind of triggers you
> need to assert change control either, and these bolt-on scripts are
> just making life messy. Will somebody please finish git itself instead
> of working around it, or use a source control system that's up to the
> job.

Your complaing have the same sense as complaining that gcc does not include functionality of Makefile, because you just can't manage larger projects without it (or equivalent).

Do one thing, and do it well.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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Message 9 of 10 in “Android needs repo, Chrome needs gclient. Neither work. What does that say about git?”
  1. Adrian MayNov 20, 2009
  2. Johannes SchindelinNov 20, 2009
  3. Adrian MayNov 23, 2009
  4. tytso@mit.eduNov 23, 2009
  5. Adrian MayNov 24, 2009
  6. Bob HazardNov 24, 2009
  7. Daniel BarkalowNov 24, 2009
  8. Petr BaudisNov 20, 2009
  9. Jakub NarebskiNov 20, 2009
  10. Clemens BuchacherNov 20, 2009

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