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I wouldn't be so harsh as to say his product is not relevant, it's just relevant to a different market. What I've seen in corporate America, makes me think his
by biohacker42 18y ago
I wouldn't be so harsh as to say his product is not relevant, it's just relevant to a different market.
What I've seen in corporate America, makes me think his product is far too permissive for a lot of places, places which won't dare touch Git.
- jrockway 18y agoWhat I've seen in corporate America, makes me think his product is far too permissive for a lot of places, places which won't dare touch Git. These people are silly, though. I don't know of a single version control system that doesn't let you change history in a straightforward manner. At least in Git, the cryptographic commit IDs will change or be invalid when a commit is changed out from under you. Most other VCSes are blissfully unaware of history rewriting, and thus someone nefarious with access to the central repository can easily forge history. I bet that never makes it into the marketing literature, though.
- biohacker42 18y agoI don't know of a single version control system that doesn't let you change history in a straightforward manner. http://www.accurev.com/ http://www.accurev.com/ It has an append only db.
- jrockway 18y agoAre the revisions cryptographically validated, and are there other copies of the repository to compare against? If not, it doesn't matter, you can just edit the disk blocks. (Yes, maybe you don't care about history that much. But if history is a tool for developers rather than the legal team, you shouldn't care if the developers mutate it.)