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[Python-Dev] PEP 481 - Migrate Some Supporting Repositories to Git and Github

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Mon Dec 1 01:43:10 CET 2014 
Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> writes:

> It’s not lost, [… a long, presumably-accurate discourse of the many
> conditions that must be met before …] you can restore it.

This isn't the place to discuss the details of Git's internals, I think.
I'm merely pointing out that:

> The important thing to realize is that a “branch” isn’t anything
> special in git.

Because of that, Ethan's impression – that Git's default behaviour
encourages losing history (by re-writing the history of commits to be
other than what they were) is true, and “Git never loses history” simply
isn't true.

Whether that is a *problem* is a matter of debate, but the fact that
Git's common workflow commonly discards information that some consider
valuable, is a simple fact.

If Ethan chooses to make that a factor in his decisions about Git, the
facts are on his side.

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