From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:38:41 GMT
Subject: Re: jk/tag-contains
Message-ID: <7vbp9kk5ce.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <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.