Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>: > Most of those old projects have a linear history, INTERCAL didn't. There were two branches for platform ports. > But different commit/author and respective dates, and merges? Sounds > like overkill. I felt it was important that the metadata format be able to specify git's entire metadata and DAG semantics. Otherwise, as sure as the sun rises, *somebody* would run into a corner case not covered, and (quite rightly) curse me for a shortsighted fool who had done a half-assed job. I don't do half-assed jobs. Not ever, no way, nohow. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html