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Re: Goals for repo conversion day
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: Goals for repo conversion day |
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Sat, 25 Jan 2014 14:54:01 -0500 |
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Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden>:
> (a) Seamless history browsing.
>
> This is false fruit. Archeologists LIKE the seams.
That is true. But beware of misleading analogies! Archeologists like
the seams mainly because stratigraphy helps them date things. This is a problem
historians looking through a version-control repository won't have.
> Smoothing the repo
> (possible) but not the external references into the repo (impossible) is
> at best a half-assed "solution", at worst a ridiculous and never-ending
> font of WOMBAT laments. I think the best we can hope for is a decent
> map (and of course nice Emacs-based tools for grokking it in full :-D).
We will have a decent map. Whether anyone cares enough to build those
tools is another question.
> If these can be achieved w/o undue repo futzing, that would be best.
I intend to publish the conversion script here for review well before
it is applied; you will be able to judge for yourself whether it is
"undue", and suggest improvements.
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