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by mcny 209 days ago
Why don't people use subtree?

https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/git-subtree

1 comments

The .NET source build team looked at subtrees (https://github.com/dotnet/arcade/issues/10257#issuecomment-1...).

> Introduces a very messy and complex history which would not work for the repo of our size > Apparently the support in git is buggy and can lead to problems in the repo (the SO is full of examples) > Doesn't support cloaking

(I think by "cloaking" they are referring to https://github.com/premun/dotnet/blob/766c564dd379e634c38739... )