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Re: Bazaar references complicate the git transition
From: |
Eric S. Raymond |
Subject: |
Re: Bazaar references complicate the git transition |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Jan 2014 12:27:00 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
David Reitter <address@hidden>:
> Please do not alter history in the git repository. This would be
> bad for everyone downstream of the git mirror, and downright
> catastrophic for projects like mine (with 50+ merges of the course
> of years).
I think I can work with you to prevent a catastrophe. I've faced this
kind of situation before, and I've built the best tools in existence
for coping with it.
> Why not use the mechanism that is foreseen for revising commit
> messages going forward? Either "notes", as suggested, or a separate
> file (like the Changelog file). If and when someone needs to
> resolve a reference, it could be easily done manually or
> automatically.
I know from lots of previous experience with messy conversions (NUT,
Hercules, Roundup, groff, and a number of others) that these sorts of
halfway-out-of-band mechanisms are fragile and *never* work as well as
advertised. The pain you think you are avoiding with them will come
back redoubled.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
- Re: Bazaar references complicate the git transition, (continued)
- Re: Bazaar references complicate the git transition, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/11
- Re: Bazaar references complicate the git transition, David Reitter, 2014/01/11
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- Re: Bazaar references complicate the git transition, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/11
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- Re: Bazaar references complicate the git transition, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2014/01/11
- Re: Bazaar references complicate the git transition, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/11
- Re: Bazaar references complicate the git transition, Paul Eggert, 2014/01/11
- Re: Bazaar references complicate the git transition, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/11
- Re: Bazaar references complicate the git transition, David Reitter, 2014/01/11