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on 19/11/2012 03:53 Nathan Whitehorn said the following:
> git would be a huge step backward from svn for the central repo in lots of ways.

Dramatic statements ("huge", "lots") require dramatic evidence.

> Besides being (in my experience) extremely fragile and error-prone and the

Ditto ("extremely").

> issues of workflow that have been brought up, the loss of monotonic revision
> numbers is a really major problem.

Monotonic revision numbers are nice to have, but again, are they really of that
major importance?

> Switching SCMs as a result of a security
> problem is also an action totally disproportionate with the issue that should
> not be made in a panic. Having more [cryptographic] verifiability in the release
> process is a good thing; it is not strictly related to the choice of version
> control system.

With this part I entirely agree.

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Andriy Gapon