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Re: git guidance

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RDRogan Dawes <lists@dawes.za.net>
Date
Nov 28, 2007, 13:45 UTC
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Al Boldi wrote:
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> Willy Tarreau wrote:
>> It should not turn into an endless thread led by people who want to
>> redefine GIT's roadmap, but experience sharing helps a lot with GIT.
> 
> Well, now that you mentioned it, if there is one thing I dislike, it's for 
> version control to start mutilating your sources.  Version Control should be 
> completely transparent.  GIT isn't.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --
> Al
>

Care to explain? Git is quite happy handling arbitrary binary content, so I find it difficult to believe that it is changing your source code in strange ways.

Rogan
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  1. Al BoldiNov 28, 2007
  2. Rogan DawesNov 28, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinNov 28, 2007
  4. Al BoldiNov 28, 2007
  5. Johannes SchindelinNov 28, 2007
  6. Al BoldiNov 28, 2007
  7. Jakub NarebskiNov 28, 2007
  8. Al BoldiNov 29, 2007
  9. Kyle MoffettNov 29, 2007

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