[Python-Dev] PEP 481 - Migrate Some Supporting Repositories to Git and Github

[Ben Finney]

Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> writes:

> I have never heard of git losing history.

In my experience talking with Git users about this problem, that depends
on a very narrow definition of “losing history”.

Git encourages re-writing, and thereby losing prior versions of, the
history of a branch. The commit information remains, but the history of
how they link together is lost. That is a loss of information, which is
not the case in the absence of such history re-writing.

Git users differ in whether they consider that information loss
important; but it is, objectively, losing history information. So
Ethan's impression is correct on this point.

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Ben Finney