On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 20:43 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
> > git IS a stable archive of what the patches really were.
>
> No. A developer can delete, move and rebase branches in his own
> repository as he likes, and all of those operations "modify history". In
> fact, a developer can completely destroy or take offline his published
> repository. It's *not* an archive.
Yes but I have to pull the whole repo to do it is my point. I can't just
pull down the 8.3 branch. I have to pull down the whole tree and then
work on 8.3.
SVN on the other hand, if I only want to work on trunk, I can check out
trunk and only work (and commit) into trunk.
>
> There's other reasons why I like git very much over cvs, but archiving
> is not one of them.
Oh don't get me wrong. I am not a CVS user on any level except with
PostgreSQL.
Joshua D. Drake
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