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Re:High-Level Problems with Git and How to Fix Them by dboreham on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @08:40AM (#15905465)
Um..a mission critical data store shouldn't be affected by a "power failure at just the wrong time".
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Re:High-Level Problems with Git and How to Fix Them by rbehrends on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:01AM (#15905595)
Sure, but the same things could happen to (say) a relational database under the same circumstances. There's nothing that you can do if (say) the hardware lies to you about having written bits to disk or reorders writes. I was citing the SQLite page for a reason. You can only work with the tools that the OS gives you.
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Re:High-Level Problems with Git and How to Fix Them by flukus on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @06:32PM (#15910549)
Git is not a mission critical data store. Corruption should cause a bad day, not a disaster.
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