Hmm …

Posted Nov 4, 2018 10:02 UTC (Sun) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Hmm … by moltonel
Parent article: Apache Subversion 1.11.0 released

I'd recommend "git clone --local". Or even "--shared".

Hmm …

Posted Nov 16, 2018 22:47 UTC (Fri) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link] (1 responses)

Here we see one issue of git in action.
Somebody raises an issue or question, and thi starts a discussion between git experts who all propose different non-obvious git commands.

Hmm …

Posted Nov 17, 2018 11:02 UTC (Sat) by moltonel (subscriber, #45207) [Link]

In this case they're not too hard to find, I know I tried them myself to solve the "work with multiple branches in parallel" problem. It's just that they all have drawbacks and in the end, `cp -a` works better for me.

It's worse with the "proper file rename support" problem though: in that case all the experts had to propose were ways to split/group two rename/modify commits together, which are not only horribly complicated, but don't solve the actual problem. The workaround of separating commits into a "pure rename commit" and "the rest of the commit" (whatever the level of automation) is really not satisfying.