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Re:Git and github are not change management tools (rewritin... by ezyang on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @08:39AM (#2867899)
The author is misguided about (1) the technical details behind Git (all commits are hashed, so if you cryptographically sign a particular commit tag, it will definitely point to that commit and its attendant history), as well as (2) the obvious/non-obviousness of a rewritten history (if upstream rebases, it's really obvious.)
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Re:Git and github are not change management tools (rewritin... by mainguy on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @09:49AM (#2868147)
You're absolutely right, that was kinda the point of the article. I've run across quite a few people who think git is "distributed svn" and the gap between these two tools is much bigger than most appreciate.
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