[rst]

He's saying that "pulling a portion of the repo" is one of his use cases, and not being able to do that gets in his way.

Pointing out technical reasons why git doesn't do the job he wants doesn't make it useful for him, it just points out why the problem is hard to fix.

[eropple]

"Doctor, it hurts when I do this" does have an answer of its own.

[jsmeaton]

> "Doctor, it hurts when I do this"

.. though it never used to.

I don't agree with the criticism of the article (though there are plenty of UX reasons to be critical), but this is hardly a punching yourself in the face kind of behaviour.

[Anderkent]

Is the answer 'use a better tool'?