On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 10:51 AM Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> -------- > Alan Somers writes: > > > I'll be more frank than phk: it sucks. Git's commit dates are basically > > useless. > > Git is not built as, or to be, version control. > > Git is built to be distrbuted collaboration tool. > > The designed-in version control aspect was always, and only, that > the ranting finish guy *by fiat* had the golden tree. > > The fact that people, like us, dress git up and call it a VCS does > not wash the stripes of the tiger. > > To me, personally, having a distributed collaboration tool has been > much more valuable than any "pure" or "real" VCS ever were. > Yes. Git has never been a true/pure VCS. However, it does offer enough VCS-like features to create a shared distributed versioned tree that's useful to the project. As for date order, we could also add a commit hook that requires the date to be properly set, but that creates friction for developers. Is that friction worth the benefits? I don't think so, but as you say we could also add notes... but since there's no checkout by date feature, I'm not sure what good it would do. Warner _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
