Re: [ANN] SubGit 1.0.0 is released

On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:13:45 +0000, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
...
> Except, of course when it doesn't. The use of OS specific EOL, which
> git does not support, and subversion keywords like $Id$ and $Author$,
> which git does not support, would seem to me to be an adventure
> begging to happen.

Or like tags, which svn does not support?

You may also want to update on the current git feature set.

...
> "clever" engineer I knew who tried to write a source control system
> based on checked out branches having locked files owned by root and
> hardlinked to the original code. It sounded like an efficient idea on
> paper, but lord, it was painful to clean up after.

That bears a certain similarity with the history of merge support in svn
and the idea of implementing 'move' as 'copy+delete', the bugs caused by
which have still not been sorted out by the API-setting engineers.

Andreas

-- 
"Totally trivial. Famous last words."
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800