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Here's a very obvious use-case: You have a single file with many historical changes. That file moves to a new directory that is not a subdirectory of its current directory.

In git, the file vanishes from the repo and can't be tracked easily anymore. You lose all of its past history if you put it into a new repo. In SRC the history moves with the file.




the .git directory need not be in the same place as your working files. I keep my /etc in git with no issues.


I'm not saying that any of the stuff suggested can't be done with git. The point is that this is not the use case git was designed for, so it doesn't accommodate it easily -- you must write all the exceptions and special cases into your repository, which is cumbersome.




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