Re: Opera release Git-splitter, a sub-modularizing tool for Git

[Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>]

Yngve Nysaeter Pettersen venit, vidit, dixit 21.12.2012 13:43:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:23:46 +0100, Michael J Gruber
> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> 
>> Yngve N. Pettersen (Developer Opera Software ASA) venit, vidit, dixit
>> 18.12.2012 15:51:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> Today Opera Software released the "Git-splitter", a small tool for
>>> sub-modularizing code in a git repo, with complete commit history, under
>>> the Apache 2.0 license.
>>>
>>> It's functionality is similar to "git-subtree", but also include a  
>>> command
>>> for reversing the process.
>>
>> Is there something keeping you technically from adding a join command to
>> git-subtree?
> 
> Probably not, but within the process I was working I did not want to merge
> the branch with the recreated history for that path into the existing
> codebase (I don't like duplicate histories) so I used rebasing to move the
> new commits over, instead, and therefore did not need a join command.
> 
> Feel free to add a join command, if you want one.

Im sorry, but that was a total misunderstanding. You said git-splitter
is like git-subtree but adds a command for reversing the process. My
question was: What kept you from adding that to git-subtree (rather than
redoing stiff that git-subtree does)?

I just assumed that reversing the process of splitting must be joining.

It may very well be that git-splitter does things differently, i.e. that
there are more differences than just added functionality (compared to
git-subtree), but that is not clear from the announcement.

>>> The code is hosted on GitHub:
>>> <https://github.com/operasoftware/git-splitter>
>>>
>>> We have announced the release as part of another announcement of  
>>> released
>>> code at the Opera Security Group home page:
>>> <http://my.opera.com/securitygroup/blog/2012/12/18/tls-prober-source-released-under-apache-2-0-license>
>>>
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