I think your last statement feels correct to me. IMHO using a vcs for deployment is great for developers and clients who are contibuting back to the codebase, but that customers would be muched better served by being kept up to date with releases rather than individual patches.
Sent from my iPad On Feb 28, 2011, at 10:56 AM, Marco Carbone <marco.carb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Is there something I'm missing/not understanding here, or does one just have > to accept the price of a bigger codebase when using Git to manage > core/contrib code? Or is managing core/contrib code this way passe now that > updates can be done through the UI? > > -marco