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SubjectRe: bitkeeper comments
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:23:34PM +0200, Jakob Oestergaard wrote:
> There is an important difference.
>
> If I send you a mail saying "X" and you change it to say "Y" and put "Y"
> in the source tree, fine. It was a mail between us, noone except you
> and me will know. If I think it's wrong, maybe I can make you submit
> "X" to the source tree instead, with an explanation.
>
> Everything that was ever publicly visible, stays publicly visible, even
> with the the revised comments, thanks to the revision history.
>
> But changing the source tree revision history retroactively, that's bad.
> It defies the purpose of revision control itself.
>
> The source tree is a public record. People will remember "this said 'Y'
> I'm sure, but now it says 'X', why is that?" - and noone can answer.
> History forgotten.

Yupp, that's what I meant. I certainly don't want a thought police
on my source trees.

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