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Re: gitpacker progress report and a question

From
Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date
Nov 27, 2012, 08:36 UTC
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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>:
> Most of those old projects have a linear history,
INTERCAL didn't.  There were two branches for platform ports.
> But different commit/author and respective dates, and merges? Sounds
> like overkill.

I felt it was important that the metadata format be able to specify git's entire metadata and DAG semantics. Otherwise, as sure as the sun rises, *somebody* would run into a corner case not covered, and (quite rightly) curse me for a shortsighted fool who had done a half-assed job.

I don't do half-assed jobs.  Not ever, no way, nohow.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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