On 4/10/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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> >
> > It is already "merged somewhere": as soon as the patches left landed
> > on vger, it is not possible to loose (and even destroy) them.
> > The feature is just too much sought after.
>
> Well, unless it hits something like Junios 'pu' (or 'next') branch, or
> somebody (like you?) ends up maintaining a repo with this, it's just
> unnecessarily hard to have lots of people working together on it..
>
> I'm obviously interested in working on it, but at the same time, I don't
> expect to be a primary *user* of it, so I'm hoping others will come in and
> start looking at it.
>
> It looks promising that you're getting involved, but I suspect you may be
> a bit too optimistic when you say "just too much sought after". We've been
> *talking* about subprojects for a long long time, and we've had other
> patches fail. So...

The people who need the feature are still using other VCS.
Some do not even know about git, the others are more interested
in their own projects than in hacking on git (like KDE or Ubuntu
people). And then there are commercial projects with thirdparty
libraries, components or data. The other VCS' provide the feature,
even if they do it wrong and badly (I never could go back in time in my
day-work project, always asked myself what was the point of using
Perforce at all).
So, I suspect it is the people who are unable or unwilling
to contribute to git (to anything, really) who need the feature most.
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