Re: irt: Re: Core statement on version control systems

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 05:39:40PM -0500, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
 > > spouting off. It's all been hashed out a bazillion times before
 > > because new git advocates appear regularly.
 > 
 > Where exactly has it been hashed out a bazillion times?
 > 
 > http://wiki.netbsd.org/mailing-lists/tech-repository/

Well, for starters you might try looking at the mailing list archive
and not some random decade-old wiki page.

But, to be fair, while tech-repository was created to sequester this
argument, that hasn't been super successful and some of the copies of
the argument are elsewhere.

 > Also, how does Hg fits the requirements at the top of that page better
 > than Git?  Wouldn't Fossil have the best fit?

That list is missing at least two critical points where git falls
short:
   - storing file rename data
   - storing the identity of long-running branches in the history

Anyway, Fossil was never able to scale adequately.

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David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost