On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 21:31 -0400, bulia byak wrote:
Instead of a vote, I have a question: Ted, what was the piece of software with which you did that horrendous hole in our SVN history, erasing many past revisions of many files? Was it bzr? If so how can we be sure this never happens again? Sorry to bring it up again but I run into this "black hole" quite often when I do research in our code and it's really a sore spot.
It was bzr-svn. And honestly, any DVCS would ensure that doesn't happen again as it was caused by flattening the revision history (which bzr-svn handled very poorly) but it's a flattening that wouldn't have to happen if we were using a DVCS.
Interestingly, I could probably fix that with one of the rebase tools (on either DVCS). Ah, SVN how I won't miss thee :)
--Ted