"W. Trevor King" <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 09:05:02AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > For me, that's a primary reason to avoid Git: it uses guesswork for > > the important job of tracking filenames. > > I agree with Linus on this one, > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/217
I disagree with the primary axiom he starts with. To my work, and to the operations I want to do on others's VCS repositories, files *do* matter. So I don't follow Linus through most of the rest of that message. > See, for example, the better copyright attribution in the new Git branch: > > > http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~wking/code/git/git.php?p=be.git&a=commitdiff&h=2dbd638083487400afd3b1d6a0d7a4e925c7db1f&hb=bb382a6aba11eedeb380e2aaa9755bc0e47f9095&tm=1419176 What is that meant to be an example of? I see only a diff which could easily be produced by any of the current major VCSen. > But VCS-choice is obviously a personal thing, which is why BE works > with many :). Indeed. And my vote doesn't count for much. But you have it anyway, for what it's worth. -- \ “It seems intuitively obvious to me, which means that it might | `\ be wrong.” —Chris Torek | _o__) | Ben Finney
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