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by aidenn0 234 days ago
Having used git submodules, I see a lack of them as a feature. I honestly think that a script that checks out a specific commit from an external repository, combined with adding the path to the .gitignore is strictly better than submodules.
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verdverm 234 days ago
sure, but there are projects that use them already. If jj wants to replace git, it needs to work with people's existing projects without significant changes (ideally none at all)

Changing git hosts happens less frequently than changing clouds, which is infrequent. Changing VCS tools is even less frequent than either of those

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aidenn0 234 days ago
git doesn't do everything that SVN does, so I don't think that's true.
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verdverm 234 days ago
The development world is much different and entrenched than it was when the move from svn -> git happened. Think of all the tooling, integrations, and automation we use these days. That was not happening 15+ years ago. I don't think svn as an analogy holds much water, tbh
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aidenn0 234 days ago
Tooling, integrations, and automation (Including CI) were all things we used at my work when we switched from CVS to SVN almost 20 years ago.
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verdverm 232 days ago
Some people were, yes, but the scale of this has changed in those 20 years as well
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1718627440 233 days ago
How do you record the specific commit of the external repository, that was used in a specific commit of your repository?
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