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by valley_guy_12 5158 days ago
Repo seems to work the way it does on purpose:

"...the reason we made repo was because we didn't want to deal with commits in the super project, or trying to merge concurrent branches in the super project. Instead we wanted each subproject to use a floating branch as the revision it is tracking."

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/repo-discuss/ZpqOOE5mLXo/Sw0...
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exDM69 5158 days ago
If you ask me, it was the wrong choice. I work on a huge project that's hosted on Repo (full Android OS + big proprietary driver tree), and the lack of this feature has really cost me lots of time doing manual labor that could be automated.

Another decision the Repo designers made that I disagree with is the silly Change-Id added to every commit message(!). Since when do globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) solve problems instead of creating more?

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duskwuff 5157 days ago
That's an artifact of Gerrit, not Repo.
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