Re: Git haas gone wild (Rust), freebsd-update
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2025 07:46:23 UTC
-------- Josef 'Jeff' Sipek writes: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 19:01:27 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > -------- > > Josef 'Jeff' Sipek writes: > > > > > > > > Or switch to Mercurial, https://www.mercurial-scm.org/ and declare git > > > > > > as obsolete > > > > > > > > > > I think that's an excellent idea, for both technical and social reasons! > > > > I seem to remember that we had a huge VCS shootout back in previous times > > and that hg basically lost because they had no way to truly "obliterate" > > a commit, if for instance laywers waved a credible cease&desist letter. > > Taking a quick look, it looks like the revlog format hg uses has the correct > bits to allow for censoring of parts of history. So, it should work with > minimal fuss. (I've never used this feature, so maybe there is more to it.) I'm not totally up on the details, but I as I recall, the position of the "VCS-selection-team" was that leaving the legally challenged stuff in the repos, even if administratively maked out of bounds were not good enough. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.