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Yes it tells the story. Does it help to understand the history of the code? Not necessary. I care most about what, when and where came from, not some fiction ar
by rimantas 11y ago
Yes it tells the story. Does it help to understand the history of the code? Not necessary. I care most about what, when and where came from, not some fiction around that.
- WorldMaker 11y agoI appreciate you using the word "fiction", but I think you have it backwards. The cleaned up post-facto linearization and "cleanup" is writing a fiction, telling a story about the changes rather than actually being the changes. This is great and I realize that that has its uses to build good stories about what our code is. I'd like to think, however, and I think that this is my larger point in this thread, that maybe we could build better storytelling tools that don't delete/mangle/mutate the actual history so that we can see in the same repository both the story and the raw facts.