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

[Matěj Cepl]

On 2014-12-01, 00:50 GMT, Donald Stufft wrote:
> The only thing that is true is that git users are more likely to use the
> ability to rewrite history than Mercurial users are, but you’ll typically
> find that people generally don’t do this on public branches, only on private
> branches.

And I would add that any reasonable git repository manager (why 
we are talking only about GitHub as if there was no cgit, 
gitorious, gitlab, gitblit, etc.?) can forbid forced-push so the 
history could be as sacrosanct as with Mercurial.

Matěj