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I don't think it's unlikely at all. Git might be succeeded by something, but certainly some projects will be around. For example, the Emacs repository (the git

I don't think it's unlikely at all. Git might be succeeded by something, but certainly some projects will be around. For example, the Emacs repository (the git clone at least. I haven't checked bzr) has commits dated before my birth. Some of the history is certainly lost due to lossy conversion. RCS and CVS never were very good at tracking it anyway. However, any conversion from git is going to have to retain full history. (why would you convert to something inferior?) Furthermore, as git is distributed, the history of a project is fully contained within countless clones. I doubt any sufficiently popular open source project could just disappear from the internet. That's why the hosting sites don't matter either. If one goes down, it's trivial to migrate to another host.

jmillikin 17y ago
> For example, the Emacs repository (the git clone at least. I haven't checked bzr) has commits dated before my birth. Given that both the Bazaar and Git repositories are imported from the same source, they should contain the same commits. The earliest commit in Bazaar is: ------------------------------------------------------------ revno: 1 committer: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com> timestamp: Thu 1985-04-18 00:48:29 +0000 message: entered into RCS ------------------------------------------------------------ > However, any conversion from git is going to have to retain full history. Full, except for the bits of it that Git discarded.