On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:13:45 +0000, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: ... > Except, of course when it doesn't. The use of OS specific EOL, which > git does not support, and subversion keywords like $Id$ and $Author$, > which git does not support, would seem to me to be an adventure > begging to happen.
Or like tags, which svn does not support? You may also want to update on the current git feature set. ... > "clever" engineer I knew who tried to write a source control system > based on checked out branches having locked files owned by root and > hardlinked to the original code. It sounded like an efficient idea on > paper, but lord, it was painful to clean up after. That bears a certain similarity with the history of merge support in svn and the idea of implementing 'move' as 'copy+delete', the bugs caused by which have still not been sorted out by the API-setting engineers. Andreas -- "Totally trivial. Famous last words." From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800
