Reason For Creation
According to the Google OpenSource Blog the reason this tool was created was, with approximately 8.5 million lines of code (not including things like the Linux Kernel), keeping this all in one Git tree would've been problematic because these requirements would not have been met:
- Delineate access control based on location in the tree.
- Ability to make some components replaceable at a later date.
- Trivial overlays for OEMs and other projects who either aren't ready or aren't able to embrace open source.
- No need for technical people to spend their time as patch monkeys.
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