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List:       kde-scm-interest
Subject:    Re: [Kde-scm-interest] Fwd: ideas to git conversion
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-12-04 18:09:37
Message-ID: 200812041909.38035.thiago () kde ! org
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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.

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