From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:46:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Android needs repo, Chrome needs gclient. Neither work. What does that say about git?
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In-Reply-To: <65e170e70911200251q2ec5ec87rc37577dddfd3317d@mail.gmail.com>

Adrian May <adrian.alexander.may@gmail.com> writes:

> 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
ShadeHawk on #git