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

Matěj Cepl mcepl at cepl.eu
Mon Dec 1 09:01:11 CET 2014


On 2014-12-01, 00:50 GMT, Donald Stufft wrote:
> The only thing that is true is that git users are more likely to use the
> ability to rewrite history than Mercurial users are, but you’ll typically
> find that people generally don’t do this on public branches, only on private
> branches.

And I would add that any reasonable git repository manager (why 
we are talking only about GitHub as if there was no cgit, 
gitorious, gitlab, gitblit, etc.?) can forbid forced-push so the 
history could be as sacrosanct as with Mercurial.

Matěj



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