Re: bitkeeper comments

[Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:28:27PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:23:34PM +0200, Jakob Oestergaard wrote:
> > There is an important difference.
> > 
> > If I send you a mail saying "X" and you change it to say "Y" and put "Y"
> > in the source tree, fine.  It was a mail between us, noone except you
> > and me will know.  If I think it's wrong, maybe I can make you submit
> > "X" to the source tree instead, with an explanation.
> > 
> > Everything that was ever publicly visible, stays publicly visible, even
> > with the the revised comments, thanks to the revision history.
> > 
> > But changing the source tree revision history retroactively, that's bad.
> > It defies the purpose of revision control itself.
> > 
> > The source tree is a public record. People will remember "this said 'Y'
> > I'm sure, but now it says 'X', why is that?" - and noone can answer.
> > History forgotten.
> 
> Yupp, that's what I meant.  I certainly don't want a thought police
> on my source trees.

Trivial w/ the current BK because the comments aren't versioned.  Just have
someone be elected as the archiver and have them have a cron job which pulls
bkbits.net every 20 minutes or so.  Then if the comments are ever changed
your archive will have the originals.
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Larry McVoy              lm at bitmover.com          http://www.bitmover.com/lm