Re: git-subtree Ready #2
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Feb 27, 2012, 21:23 UTC
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- <20120227212337.GA19864@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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- <20120227212157.GA19779@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 04:21:57PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
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> > So the answer to your question is yes, but I do not think we heard opinion > > from anybody regarding the question by Avery yet. I personally do not see > > how it would help us if the old history is rewritten at this point. > > Yeah, I don't see much point in rewriting. If parts of the history suck, > then so be it. It's probably not that big to store. And while it's > sometimes easier to fix bad commit messages when they are recent and in > your memory (rather than trying to remember later what you meant to > say), I think it is already too late for that. Any archaeology you do > now to make good commit messages could probably just as easily be done > if and when somebody actually needs the commit message later (emphasis > on the "if" -- it's likely that nobody will care about most of the > commit messages later at all).
Sorry, the "you" there is meant to be David. Forgot who I was responding to for a minute.
-Peff