From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rogan Dawes Subject: Re: git guidance Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:45:01 -0800 Message-ID: <474D70DD.4020601@dawes.za.net> References: <20071127235237.GF15227@1wt.eu> <200711281549.02663.a1426z@gawab.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, git@vger.kernel.org To: Al Boldi X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 28 14:48:31 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IxNHC-0006LY-Od for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:48:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760850AbXK1Nrq (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:47:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755211AbXK1Nrq (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:47:46 -0500 Received: from hapkido.dreamhost.com ([66.33.216.122]:37289 "EHLO hapkido.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760842AbXK1Nrp (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:47:45 -0500 Received: from spunkymail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (sd-green-bigip-74.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.74]) by hapkido.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3604617957A; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:47:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.201.100] (dsl-241-197-148.telkomadsl.co.za [41.241.197.148]) by spunkymail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2CD787F36; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:45:38 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <200711281549.02663.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Al Boldi wrote: > Willy Tarreau wrote: >> It should not turn into an endless thread led by people who want to >> redefine GIT's roadmap, but experience sharing helps a lot with GIT. > > Well, now that you mentioned it, if there is one thing I dislike, it's for > version control to start mutilating your sources. Version Control should be > completely transparent. GIT isn't. > > Thanks! > > -- > Al > Care to explain? Git is quite happy handling arbitrary binary content, so I find it difficult to believe that it is changing your source code in strange ways. Rogan