Re: antisocial things you can do in git (but not CVS) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jonathan Corbet
Subject Re: antisocial things you can do in git (but not CVS)
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Msg-id 20100721141835.5e2625f7@bike.lwn.net
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In response to Re: antisocial things you can do in git (but not CVS)  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:11:41 -0400
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:

> We have a clear idea of what should be part of the public history 
> contained in the authoritative repo and what should be history that is 
> private to the developer/tester/committer. We don't want to pollute the 
> former with the latter.

The thought makes me shudder...you lose the history, the reasons for
specific changes, the authorship of changes, and the ability of your
testers to pinpoint problematic changes.  But...your project, your
decision...we'll keep using PostgreSQL regardless...:)

Thanks,

jon


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