Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:51:22 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> Cc: John Kennedy <warlock@phouka.net>, Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: git non-time-sequential logs Message-ID: <94622.1609782682@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <CAOtMX2hwdprzdr-Cci4XL8mO%2BgRd%2Bp_4s%2Bj7YkymBCLztGuJtA@mail.gmail.com> References: <X/NA4Jk/P%2Bih5WSD@phouka1.phouka.net> <X/NH3cb5eeweRibn@phouka1.phouka.net> <94447.1609779520@critter.freebsd.dk> <CAOtMX2hwdprzdr-Cci4XL8mO%2BgRd%2Bp_4s%2Bj7YkymBCLztGuJtA@mail.gmail.com>
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-------- Alan Somers writes: > I'll be more frank than phk: it sucks. Git's commit dates are basically > useless. Git is not built as, or to be, version control. Git is built to be distrbuted collaboration tool. The designed-in version control aspect was always, and only, that the ranting finish guy *by fiat* had the golden tree. The fact that people, like us, dress git up and call it a VCS does not wash the stripes of the tiger. To me, personally, having a distributed collaboration tool has been much more valuable than any "pure" or "real" VCS ever were. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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