On 02/02/2013 07:27 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2013, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>>>
>>> Git surely makes it easy to promote a branch to a new top-level repository.
>>> Having it available by default in a repository would be easier to grasp
>>> for git-challenged people like me.
>>>
>> Other people have spoken against the need of such a split though. However
>> ...
>
> Doesn't Git make it as easy to diff and merge between repositories as
> easily it does between branches in the same repository?
>
If the repositories share common ancestors [1], sure it does.
[1] And AFAIK it makes it easy to do so even if the repositories don't
share common ancestors, but that's for different use cases than ours;
for more info see:
<http://log.pardus.de/2012/08/modular-git-with-git-subtree.html>
> The source control tool named after a fluid metal does.
>
And is not alone in that ;-)
Regards,
Stefano
