"Vladimir Panteleev" <vladi...@thecybershadow.net> wrote in message news:op.vpxphnlmtuz...@cybershadow.mshome.net... > On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:46:44 +0200, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote: > >> Are you deliberately missing that point? > > I think everyone's just annoyed how you're fiercely defending an idea that > has a single advantage (terseness - I consider hashes unique in practice), > but a whole slew of disadvantages,
Terseness is not at all the only advantage. As I've said before, you can reason about them, compare them, and get a general idea of "where" they are in the history. I don't think merging or "changing the past" conflict with that. And I'm really not seeing any non-trivial disadvantages. > and then criticizing Git & co. for being "horrid" because they don't use > your idea. > What? Are you actually trying to claim that defending/promoting one's own idea when another idea exists is a *bad* thing? Seriously? If we're going to go that absurd route, I can just make up the claim people are ganging up on me for having an idea that just happens to be different from Git's world-view. If Git does something one way then that *must* be the best way, right? Anything else is obviously just heresy, right? Bring on the stakes and torches, we're going to Salem!!