On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 06:05:33PM -0600, Scott Robison wrote: > On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Nico Williams <n...@cryptonector.com> wrote: > > > > git branch -D name > > > > Eh, filesystems let you delete files. Unlike most filesystems, git lets > > you restore your deleted branches (yes, provided you don't gc the repo). > > > > Then just use a file system and various command line tools! But seriously, > it's a philosophical difference between those who want to be able to > rewrite their history to what they should have done and those who want to > keep the history around to see what they did.
I can understand for personal projects people might want stuff to disappear. And I can understand vandals want to make stuff disappear when they attack a system. But in a serious, large project there are often requirements for an audit trail. There is no downside to this given the cheapness of backing storage. And it can prevent all sorts of problems. In the places I work the problem tracking system entries are immutable. And while a lot of those places don't use source control for various reasons when they do use them the source changes and history of who did what and when he did it are also immutable. /jl -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary / \ http://www.mutt.org attachments / \ Code Blue or Go Home! Encrypted email preferred PGP Key 2048R/DA65BC04 _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
