Re: Obliterate questions

Philip Martin wrote:
> Branko Cibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> writes:
>
>
>> Yes -- and that way lies insanity. Even obliterate, as specified now,
>> walks on the brink of "proper version control". Rewriting history in
>> more subtle ways is much, much worse -- and I can't really imagine a
>> sensible use case for it.
>>
>
> How about replacing the text of a file, to obliterate a few
> characters, rather than obliterating the whole text.
>

Instead, how about not doing that. Take the next "logical" step, and you
find yourself replacing the text of a file to fix a bug. The we may as
well advertise as "Apache Subverison, the Uncontrolled Version System".

Users /will/ do stupid things if their version control system lets them.

-- Brane

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Received on 2009-11-16 14:07:35 CET