alt Hacker Newsgit subtree was the OG tool: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20090430
It has since been merged into git proper:
https://manpages.debian.org/testing/git-man/git-subtree.1.en...
https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/using-git/about-git-s...
git subtree was the OG tool: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20090430
It has since been merged into git proper:
https://manpages.debian.org/testing/git-man/git-subtree.1.en...
https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/using-git/about-git-s...
The rust blog post covers this. Subtree performance is terrible on larger repos and they didn’t land something that would fix it on medium sized ones. That’s why they went with a better maintained solution that scales.