Re: renormalize histroy with smudge/clean-filter

From: Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de>
Date: Feb 7, 2025, 20:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20250207202104.GF30202@raven.inka.de>
In-Reply-To: <CAPx1GvcyaZqYK+SvgtfsajqtkMty1jOcVAtwfmam-LpOjyd0jw@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 03:12:44AM -0800, Chris Torek wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de> wrote:

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> Git is famously *fast* (as compared to most of the systems that came
> before or at the same time anyway). In the old days when I used CVS
> and Subversion and the like, we'd run a commit or update, and then go
> out for coffee or lunch or whatever, because we knew we were not
> going to be able to do anything for another ten minutes or perhaps
> even an hour or more. Then Git came along and we'd run "git checkout"
> or "git commit" and it would say it was done, often without even a
> noticeable pause, and we'd wonder if it actually did anything at all.

Well, I know the days of CVS. I even know the days of RCS. And yeah, bak in those days you used to cross your fingers hoping that all will go well while drinking the coffee.

I think there is more into git than speed.

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Josef Wolf
jw@raven.inka.de