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Re: git is live
- From: Fred Cooke <fred dot cooke at gmail dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GDB Development <gdb at sourceware dot org>, Binutils Development <binutils at sourceware dot org>, rsandifo at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:22:45 +0200
- Subject: Re: git is live
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Source files can be gradually fixed or improved, CVS is broken for
life ;-) Would appreciate the list, there may be some entertainment in
there :-p
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Fred" == Fred Cooke <fred.cooke@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Fred> Tom, although the commits that remove/readd all files are ugly, git is
> Fred> smart enough to reuse the blobs, so they don't really do any harm. IE,
> Fred> don't feel too bad about it :-)
>
> The specific problem is that git blame doesn't track through the weird
> commits; and I know Pedro does this somewhat more often than other
> people, and would have liked to see the real history, instead of having
> to manually go back before April 1999.
>
> Fred> And thanks! A lot. I'll actually feel motivated (as opposed to
> Fred> disgusted)
>
> I will send you a list of source files not to read :)
>
> Tom