[Nix-dev] Re: DVCS - what we care about?

[Michael Raskin]

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On 08/12/2010 07:31 PM, Peter Simons wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
>  > Well, Git has very well-thought-through implementation. What
>  > describes conceptual design of git according to your standards?
> 
> why do you ask me? I didn't make any claims about Git. You did. You
> claimed that Git does not have any architecture. I'd be interested to
> hear your reasoning to back that claim up. Can you point out any
> architectural deficiencies in Git?

Well, there are no deficiency if you consider it as a high-speed
high-branch-count merge tool (and it looks like it is optimized to be
that).

If you look at it as a history storage tool, deliberate throwing away of
branch history seems enough of a deficiency.
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