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On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 01:07:25PM -0400, Bob Paddock wrote:
> > Well, of course, that’s a matter of trying to do manually what git does automatically. The commit messages are your changelog in git.
> 
> While this does not in way apply to gEDA and company,
>  any VCS that lets history be rewritten is a show stopper in many
> regulatory/military development environments.

This kind of argument often comes from a "security theater" perspective.
In reality, there are many ways for important data to become unavailable
or useless, regardless of the regulations that had been put in place to
prevent it.

For git, or any other VCS that supports history rewriting, there
are mechanisms that allow you to disable history rewriting and they
work quite nicely.

We use git at work and routinely rewrite history in our local repos.
Sometimes (very rarely, though) it happens that the history is
rewritten on the "central" repo.

-- 
Ivan Stankovic, pokemon AT fly DOT srk DOT fer DOT hr

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