[Nix-dev] Re: Re: new possible movement to git (?)

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Michael Raskin wrote:

> On 08/04/2010 09:35 PM, Marc Weber wrote:
> If we wish to use history as something more than unlabeled graph, we
> need to decide now - SVN to Git move can be a lossy operation.
> 
>> However git is different anyway. Probably we're not going to have
>> stdenv-anymore. We'll have branches such as gtk-updates  xorg-updates,
>> ... and maybe a branch called "next" which is a merge of those topics.
> 
> You understand that you are just strengthening my point? I understand
> that _any_ DVCS (probably even SVK) simplifies having lighter branches.
> But Git considers OK to GC branch data. And no, it is not ignoring
> historical branch data - as you claimed it does for simplicity - it
> stores reflog and can be made to clean it. I am not even sure how much
> of history rewriting is actually a good idea (as opposed to
> cherry-picking from a local branch/a local-only second head of the
> branch).
> 
> Personally, I am promoting Monotone, as it has deliberately hard-to-lose
> history,
Just disable "force push" on server.
> commit property authentication (i.e. you know who set what
> tag),
Git has signed tags and signed commits.
> and also will allow us to have things like a branch (maybe
> discontinuous) of revisions fully processed by Hydra.
Explain, please.