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Re: jk/tag-contains

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 2, 2010, 22:38 UTC
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<7vbp9kk5ce.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
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<20100802201920.GE2180@burratino>
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> I would like it to still be possible to publically acknowledge a
> mistake, make people rewrite their history to remove it, and move on.

While I wish the world were that simple, I do not think that is viable. You may not have any control over your upstream (not to mention the possibility that the upstream might even be a foreign SCM).

So I'd prefer to see us prepared to be lenient with what we accept from outside world.

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Message 9 of 12 in “What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2010, #05; Wed, 28)”
  1. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2010
  2. Jeff KingJul 30, 2010
  3. jk/tag-contains (Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2010, #05; Wed, 28))Jonathan Nieder, Jul 31, 2010
  4. Jeff KingJul 31, 2010
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 2, 2010
  6. Jonathan NiederAug 2, 2010
  7. Matthieu MoyAug 2, 2010
  8. Jonathan NiederAug 2, 2010
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 2, 2010
  10. Jeff KingAug 5, 2010
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2010
  12. Jeff KingAug 5, 2010

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