[Python-Dev] PEP 481 - Migrate Some Supporting Repositories to Git and Github (original) (raw)

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Mon Dec 1 01:17:02 CET 2014

Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> writes:

I have never heard of git losing history.

In my experience talking with Git users about this problem, that depends on a very narrow definition of “losing history”.

Git encourages re-writing, and thereby losing prior versions of, the history of a branch. The commit information remains, but the history of how they link together is lost. That is a loss of information, which is not the case in the absence of such history re-writing.

Git users differ in whether they consider that information loss important; but it is, objectively, losing history information. So Ethan's impression is correct on this point.

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