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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 10:33:56 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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   • Robin ╰(ಠ_ಠ✿)╯

   @buzzyrobin @jacqueline people keep saying "you dont want submodules you want subtrees" but ive yet to see *any* case where subtrees would meaningfully help

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     Robin ╰(ಠ_ಠ✿)╯ (buzzyrobin@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 10:33:58 JST Robin ╰(ಠ_ಠ✿)╯

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     • jacquelines 🌟

     @jacqueline (it’s a script. one that’s been shoved into the git ui via its inclusion as a contrib script, but a script nonetheless. no man page. is unlike basically anything else in git to actually use. shortcuts a bunch of things but only if know exactly what and how it does it, so you can rescue it when it breaks.)

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     Robin ╰(ಠ_ಠ✿)╯ (buzzyrobin@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 10:33:59 JST Robin ╰(ಠ_ಠ✿)╯

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     • jacquelines 🌟

     @jacqueline do git subtree next

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     jacquelines 🌟 (jacqueline@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 10:34:01 JST jacquelines 🌟

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     $ git submodule add -b vX.Y.Z https://somebullshit lib/somepath
     >clones successfully after 5 minutes
     >fails to check out the branch, even though `git checkout` in the submodule works fine
     >bc it failed to check out the branch, the `add` command as a whole failed, so no `.gitmodules` entry created
     >can't retry without manually deleting the partially cloned submodule, then deleting files in `.git/modules`

     stupid fucking busted-ass feature

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     jacquelines 🌟 (jacqueline@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 10:34:02 JST jacquelines 🌟

     FUCK GIT SUBMODULES