Re: [PATCH 0/4] subtree: move out of contrib

2018-05-01 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, May 01 2018, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi Ævar, > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2018, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > >> I think at this point git-subtree is widely used enough to move out of >> contrib/, maybe others disagree, but patches are always better for >> discussion that patch-less ML

Re: [PATCH 0/4] subtree: move out of contrib

2018-05-01 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Ævar, On Mon, 30 Apr 2018, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > I think at this point git-subtree is widely used enough to move out of > contrib/, maybe others disagree, but patches are always better for > discussion that patch-less ML posts. Sure, it is used widely enough. However, it flies in

Re: [PATCH 0/4] subtree: move out of contrib

2018-05-01 Thread Duy Nguyen
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 11:50 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > I think at this point git-subtree is widely used enough to move out of > contrib/, maybe others disagree, but patches are always better for > discussion that patch-less ML posts. After narrow/partial clone

Re: [PATCH 0/4] subtree: move out of contrib

2018-04-30 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 6:21 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Pretty clear it's garbage data, unless we're to believe that the > relative interest of submodules in the US, Germany and Sweden is 51, 64 > & 84, but 75, 100 and 0 for subtree. Oh yeah, Swedish people hate

Re: [PATCH 0/4] subtree: move out of contrib

2018-04-30 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Mon, Apr 30 2018, Avery Pennarun wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Stefan Beller wrote: > There's one exception, which is doing a one-time permanent merge of > two projects into one. That's a nice feature, but is probably used > extremely rarely. FWIW this is

Re: [PATCH 0/4] subtree: move out of contrib

2018-04-30 Thread Stefan Beller
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 2:53 PM, Avery Pennarun wrote: > For the best of both worlds, I've often thought that a good balance > would be to use the same data structure that submodule uses, but to > store all the code in a single git repo under different refs, which we > might

Re: [PATCH 0/4] subtree: move out of contrib

2018-04-30 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Stefan Beller wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 1:45 PM, Avery Pennarun wrote: > No objections from me either. > > Submodules seem to serve a slightly different purpose, though? I think the purpose is actually the same -

Re: [PATCH 0/4] subtree: move out of contrib

2018-04-30 Thread Stefan Beller
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 1:45 PM, Avery Pennarun wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 5:50 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > wrote: >> I think at this point git-subtree is widely used enough to move out of >> contrib/, maybe others disagree, but patches are always

Re: [PATCH 0/4] subtree: move out of contrib

2018-04-30 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 5:50 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > I think at this point git-subtree is widely used enough to move out of > contrib/, maybe others disagree, but patches are always better for > discussion that patch-less ML posts. I really was hoping git-subtree

Re: [PATCH 0/4] subtree: move out of contrib

2018-04-30 Thread Philip Oakley
From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" I think at this point git-subtree is widely used enough to move out of contrib/, maybe others disagree, but patches are always better for discussion that patch-less ML posts. Assuming this lands in Git, then there will also need to be a

[PATCH 0/4] subtree: move out of contrib

2018-04-30 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
I think at this point git-subtree is widely used enough to move out of contrib/, maybe others disagree, but patches are always better for discussion that patch-less ML posts. Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (4): git-subtree: move from contrib/subtree/ subtree: remove support for git version <1.7