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