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From: Seemant Kulleen <seemantk@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Council / Git Migration Agenda
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 01:42:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJEWDoVdUR4z5PxVE0tTLm2JLr4VE_wF6MipLjc-BkEnERAapA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21554.11562.674143.286256@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>

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I guess it boils down to priority.  History becomes inconvenient to trace
at some point.  That's true for most human things...nothing is perfect.

seemantk empathic design
http://seemantk.com
On Oct 5, 2014 10:48 PM, "Ulrich Mueller" <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:

> >>>>> On Sun, 5 Oct 2014, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
>
> > Libraries don't have to be sad.  If the history remains in a CVS
> > repo isn't that the perfect home for it in the museum of gentoo's
> > history?
>
> Having the complete history in a single repository would be much
> preferable, even if that history is not perfect.
>
> It's annoying if you search for the point when some change was
> performed, only to find that the repo's history doesn't reach back
> that far. I've had this issue e.g. with the Portage repository whose
> history was cut off at some point. Having to change tools (from git to
> cvs) in addition doesn't make it better.
>
> Ulrich
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-06  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-04  0:00 [gentoo-project] Council / Git Migration Agenda Rich Freeman
2014-10-04  7:15 ` Michał Górny
2014-10-05  8:18 ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2014-10-05  9:33   ` Michał Górny
2014-10-06  1:27   ` hasufell
2014-10-06  2:50   ` Seemant Kulleen
2014-10-06  5:48     ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-10-06  8:42       ` Seemant Kulleen [this message]
2014-10-06  8:48       ` Michał Górny
2014-10-07  7:57         ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2014-10-07  8:07           ` [gentoo-scm] " Michał Górny
2014-10-07  8:20             ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-10-07  8:26               ` Michał Górny
2014-10-07 10:58           ` Rich Freeman
2014-10-07 11:00             ` Anthony G. Basile
2014-10-07 11:09               ` Rich Freeman
2014-10-09 19:33       ` Tom Wijsman

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