Advocacy vs. git

[Matt Mackall]

On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 17:59 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> And that's what this is really all about; there is a philosophical
> divide around history modifications, and when this should be
> justified, and it should be avoided.  Matt Mackall believes very
> strongly that most (all?) of the time mutating the history is Evil.
> So these features are disabled by default, and relegated to
> extensions, even if the extensions are enabled by default.  But it's
> not like the features don't exist for Mercurial!

That's not quite right. I'd describe my viewpoint as:

- not mutating history is fundamentally much safer
- if you want to abandon that safety, you need to know enough about
Mercurial to enable extensions

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