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Re: Fwd: Re: Revision control


From: Arne Babenhauserheide
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Revision control
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:48:09 +0200
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Am Mittwoch 11 Juni 2008 03:56:06 schrieb olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net:
> > That means, that the Mercurial people say, that history should be
> > preserved in most cases, so it wasn't first priority.
>
> This is precisely the sort of policy decisions that the software should
> not impose upon users.

Git decided that usability wouldn't be first priority. 
Hg decided that changing history wouldn't be first priority. 

Neither decided, that one of them wouldn't ever be tackled. 

Having to learn and use non-intuitive commands isn't what software should 
impose on me. 


> In fact, changing history is useful in many many situations, and one of
> the main reasons I consider git so powerful. Surely you will say now
> that Linux perhaps needs to change history, but other projects don't...

There are definitely times when you'll want to change history. 

I don't think it's something I need to do often, though, so having simple 
scripts which do it isn't a necessary feature for me. 

You can change history in Mercurial if you need to, but it isn't as quick as 
rebasing in git. 

Best wishes, 
Arne
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