Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263070AbTIAR2i (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:28:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263081AbTIAR2i (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:28:38 -0400 Received: from pub234.cambridge.redhat.com ([213.86.99.234]:38664 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263070AbTIAR2c (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:28:32 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 18:28:27 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jakob Oestergaard , Christoph Hellwig , Larry McVoy , Albert Cahalan , Larry McVoy , linux-kernel mailing list , ak@suse.de Subject: Re: bitkeeper comments Message-ID: <20030901182827.A26176@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Jakob Oestergaard , Larry McVoy , Albert Cahalan , Larry McVoy , linux-kernel mailing list , ak@suse.de References: <20030901170218.A24713@infradead.org> <20030901172334.GE14716@unthought.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030901172334.GE14716@unthought.net>; from jakob@unthought.net on Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:23:34PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1155 Lines: 26 On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:23:34PM +0200, Jakob Oestergaard wrote: > There is an important difference. > > If I send you a mail saying "X" and you change it to say "Y" and put "Y" > in the source tree, fine. It was a mail between us, noone except you > and me will know. If I think it's wrong, maybe I can make you submit > "X" to the source tree instead, with an explanation. > > Everything that was ever publicly visible, stays publicly visible, even > with the the revised comments, thanks to the revision history. > > But changing the source tree revision history retroactively, that's bad. > It defies the purpose of revision control itself. > > The source tree is a public record. People will remember "this said 'Y' > I'm sure, but now it says 'X', why is that?" - and noone can answer. > History forgotten. Yupp, that's what I meant. I certainly don't want a thought police on my source trees. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/