[Kde-scm-interest] Fwd: ideas to git conversion

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday 04 December 2008 18:36:34 Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Have you ever had the chance to appreciate git's code archeology
> capabilities? It's just the contrary: Project history is worth every ton
> once you look at a piece of code and you have to ask "why the heck was
> this done this way?"

I thought Thomas had blogged about this, but he once found out that the QPoint 
has the declaration of x and y inverted on the Macs. And when he dug with Git 
to find out why, the first annotate brought him back to 1994.

Don't underestimate the value of old history.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
  Senior Software Engineer - Nokia, Qt Software
  Qt Software is hiring - ask me
      PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint:
      E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C  966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
Url : http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-scm-interest/attachments/20081204/dfc5ca7e/attachment.sig