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Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>
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On 17 Nov 2012, at 23:05, Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com> wrote:

> [trimmed some of the lists]
> 
> Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ... git doesn't work with our workflow.
> 
> I'm sure the workflow itself is documented somewhere, but is
> there a good writeup of _how_ git doesn't work with it, e.g. what
> capabilit{y,ies} is/are missing?  Seems this might be of interest
> to the git developers, not because they necessarily want to support
> FreeBSD as such, but as an example of a real-world workflow that git
> currently does not handle well.

Peter had something to say about it:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/GitDrawbacks
 
Regards,
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Rui Paulo