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Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wednesday 2007 March 14 07:44, Theodore Tso wrote:
>
>> I agree with Junio; I think the scripts are much more readable and
>> easier to understand; In fact, it would be nice if the script were
>> preserved somewhere, perhaps as comments in the .c file.
>
> If only there were some tool that would keep collections of files as a 
> snapshotted whole and allow us to browse the history of those snapshots in 
> some sort of connected graph, with each snapshot being given some sort of 
> unique ID.  Then we could simply refer to that unique ID when we wanted to 
> tell someone about a particular historical instance.
>
> :-)

There is a difference between having a readily greppable and
lessable copy handy to study at your own initiative, and being
able to retrieve to review only after being told.

You could argue that we can all do that with git-grep and
git-less ;-).