Re: VCS forensics (was: Optimizing tty display update)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
>   tomas@tuxteam.de,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 06:44:03 +0200
> 
> Too bad that the commit history of all that stufff was lost when I
> integrated it into the RCS "repo" on gnu.org, which was just a shared
> directory.  The commits would have been a nice proof what a major PITA
> the optimization were, for years.  That, and making stuff
> backward-compatible.  The ChangeLogs told only a fraction of the story
> because I edited them and gave them all the date of integration.  Which
> looked reasonable at the time :-).

Which is why I never rebase my branches when I merge them: I want to
have all the history of the feature development available forever.

(This will probably trigger a flurry of messages telling us that
rebasing is the best invention since sliced bread.)