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Re:PostgreSQL 9.4 Released by pilif on Thursday December 18, 2014 @11:36AM (#8768083)
When I say "code archeology", I mean the equivalent of "git blame" without assigning blame - just finding out why stuff is the way it is and not who's responsible because that would be totally pointless, especially years after the incident.

I do like your spin however :-)

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Re:PostgreSQL 9.4 Released by gh02t on Thursday December 18, 2014 @11:37AM (#8768087)
Oh yeah, I knew your meaning. Doing blame and bisect to find a deep-seated bug can be a lot of fun... or frustrating and miserable. I tend to give terrible on word commit messages when I'm developing, but I always do an interactive rebase to clean things up and make a reasonable view of history. We use Phabricator a lot too, which does a great job of letting you annotate code, commits etc.
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Re:PostgreSQL 9.4 Released by NickNameNick on Thursday December 18, 2014 @10:59PM (#8771043)
Praise is a built-in alias for SVN, not so for git unfortunately.
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Re:PostgreSQL 9.4 Released by icebraining on Friday December 19, 2014 @08:43AM (#8772155)
Ditto in Bazaar, which copied SVN. But there's an easy fix:

  git config --global alias.praise blame
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