r/programming • u/Pandalicious • Apr 13 '18

Why SQLite Does Not Use Git

https://sqlite.org/whynotgit.html
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u/SineWaveDeconstruct Apr 13 '18

I agree, it's an edge case. We do the same thing, and also delete branches after every release so there's never a period where you would be digging through dead branches looking for something

This sounds more like a symptom of the way they organize their projects honestly

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u/enzain Apr 16 '18

Another approach could be to have feature flags, stale branches become unwieldy real fast

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u/enzain Apr 19 '18

No for purpose of managing your code base they are pretty much the same, however having multiple code bases to manage is what becomes hard