From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Android needs repo, Chrome needs gclient. Neither work. What does that say about git? Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:46:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <2d707e8c-2561-470c-beba-c81e16ac441c@k17g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <65e170e70911200251q2ec5ec87rc37577dddfd3317d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Adrian May X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 20 13:46:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NBSsy-0004Ot-PL for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:46:49 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753325AbZKTMqh (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:46:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753304AbZKTMqh (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:46:37 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com ([209.85.218.227]:36300 "EHLO mail-bw0-f227.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753275AbZKTMqg (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:46:36 -0500 Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so3280861bwz.21 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:46:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received :x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=o0BToyJstaCuc5qxTXVPbnMBGEWNgC+KdjHpxYT/8l0=; b=DZBS52VR3UiBCnokrvpeJalKnftm7cRt603ywXpxUQNs5E1MDNMt6LCIfQ5F2gnBb0 Iy4oLNEMoxzXOWT6lOAvvVJw1ULBnDZuovKlMEvKWPFxtOy7uO7kD+ZQUF/3YyaxJVHv 94P5glZO7S7nGiX/eNgiUOC1IituarpIvuN2c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=T7c5LkslsMHZ2WzOtWiu2k9HW5L92fptVOGqEFEbQ/fBPQuHcCQ9/86EwBOSbDotQl TNl4IbDpLExFhEnfhGOuF31AeJpN8lukNNN3pRMO/FRULmmZTTL4qetoEQU2n1qmYoyj i9M+lIH4hUnSjv3koMje5sUawkBbzlDpR6ImY= Received: by 10.204.25.152 with SMTP id z24mr1374993bkb.44.1258721201436; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:46:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (abvw68.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.220.68]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 15sm411248bwz.8.2009.11.20.04.46.38 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:46:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id nAKClOgW021603; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:47:25 +0100 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id nAKClNtd021599; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:47:23 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: <65e170e70911200251q2ec5ec87rc37577dddfd3317d@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Adrian May 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