Re: the obliterate discussion - why dumpfiltering is no valid workaround

Toby Thain wrote:
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> On 20-Jul-07, at 10:03 AM, patrick wrote:
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> Problem of education? If they don't know what kind of system they're
> using, this might be the least of your problems...
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please not the "if they don't know how to use it they're not worthy" hammer.
did you realy not even once add something that you regretted afterwards?

Toby Thain wrote:
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> I don't want to pre-empt the experts, but I think a rationale against
> such a thing can be made. For one thing it's a powerful regret-
> generator (dangerous tool, think rm -rf but on your repo(!). Typing
> error?) It -should- be hard to destroy data; a version control system
> is designed to keep it safe. It's a bit like asking for openable
> windows on a space capsule.
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1. so why does rm -rf exist then?
2. that's what backups are for. (and yeah, they are no fun if they get too
big...)

patrick

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