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

[Markus Unterwaditzer]

On 1 December 2014 01:17:02 CET, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>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.

"Losing data" is generally used in the sense that either the application or the filesystem accidentally deletes or overwrites data without the user's consent or knownledge. Rewriting and deleting (not "losing") history in git is explicitly done by the user, encouraged or not.

-- Markus