Re: Moving pkgsrc-wip away from SourceForge

[Andrew Cagney <andrew.cagney%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 14 July 2015 at 12:27, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:04:56 -0400

>> One aspect of GIT is that it allows history to be changed and does
>> not track who made the change.
>
> Is that true?  Sounds like deal breaker to me.  Are you sure that that
> behavior can't be controlled by the configuration?

The slide deck is terrible.

From a legal point of view, there needs to be a mechanism that lets
you "rewrite history".  Like it or not, from time to time, stuff needs
to get expunged.  Both SVN and GIT and I'm sure any other VCS will let
you do this.  If all else fails, you unpack and then rebuild the
entire repository.

Secondary to this is that git, by default, will let you push some
pretty arbitrary changes.  Just turn the option off in the server's
configuration file.  Why would a slide deck, dated 2013, fail to
mention this?

Andrew