Re: [boost] [git] Near future.. How do we deal with git-native libraries?

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] Near future.. How do we deal with git-native libraries?
From: Ahmed Charles (acharles_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-07 06:02:16

> Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 08:11:15 +0000
> From: daniel_at_[hidden]
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [boost] [git] Near future.. How do we deal with git-native	libraries?
> 
> On 7 December 2013 06:10, Ahmed Charles <acharles_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > Did this ever happen?
> 
> Not yet.
> 
> > Note, I'd think that merging the two histories together would result in a more seamless transition from the svn history to the git history rather than having two disjoint histories.
> 
> There's not much advantage of having a seamless transition at this
> stage, so having a clean history for the repo is probably more useful
> in the long run.

The common courtesy in git is to do only fast-forward commits on public branches, hence my comment. Obviously, with good enough reasons, you can always decide to not do this.