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Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload [and 1 more messages]



Simon Richter writes ("Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload [and 1 more messages]"):
> On 6/13/24 18:57, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > (Because git inherently has history, the dgit-repos server can
> > perform both functions at once.)
> 
> Do we actually want or need to hoard all the collaboration history?

In short, yes, we certainly want to and we may need to.

Nowadays for software maintained in git, the git *history* is usually
an important part of the source code - it's part of the "preferred
form for modification" as the GPL has it.

Ian.

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