3 ms·
> Losing code wasn't really a risk with Sourceforge either. You might not lose the latest code, but you'd lose the history and the commit comments. Those are s
by __david__ 11y ago
> Losing code wasn't really a risk with Sourceforge either.
You might not lose the latest code, but you'd lose the history and the commit comments. Those are significant.
With github you'd lose stuff like issues, but I find those not nearly as useful as the commit history.
- uxcn 11y agoGit's definitely an improvement over Subversion (CVS, etc...). Without the commit history there's a lot you couldn't do (e.g. bisect stuff), but things would still be workable. Distributed models are almost always more robust than centralized ones though. As I understand it, the main benefits are still risks though (e.g. central directory). The code itself isn't really at risk, especially with signed commits.