On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 10:28:18PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> 
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 01:26:35PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> >> * gnu/packages/version-control.scm (git-subtree): New variable.
> >
> > Why not include this in the regular Git package?
> 
> I just wanted to use git-subtree without having to rebuild all packages
> that use git for fetching the sources.
> 
> We could make this part of the regular git package, but only on
> (the next) core-updates.

I didn't realize this was an issue. We update the Git package whenever
there is a new release.