Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [GNU-arch-dev] Re: how to fix a bad log message?

[Aaron Bentley]

Clark McGrew wrote:
> This is a bit of a kibitz, but I still don't understand *why* anybody
> would want to remove a change set.  Why do people want this feature?

People make mistakes in their logs, and they want the right explanation 
to be connected to the change they made.  People commit huge binary 
files accidentally, and don't waste archive space storing them.  People 
commit corporate secrets, or files they don't have the right to 
distribute, to public archives  (in the extreme, "nuclear launch codes").

If people were more careful, perhaps the desire for undo-commit wouldn't 
be there.  But I've been using Arch for more than a year now, and I 
still make the occasional mistake.  I don't think expecting perfection 
from people is viable in the long term.

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
Panometrics, Inc.