Re: Git vs Monotone

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

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... And since the original pack-file is marked as a 'keep' file,
that original pack-file won't even be broken apart.

Oops, isn't that something we fixed recently as a "bug"?

Ehh, apparently. I had thought it was a feature (not that it was me who 
implemented it), and didn't realize that others thought it was a bug. 
Oops.

The default *.keep file was _wonderful_ for cloning a large tree onto a 
small machine. It did exactly the right thing (never mind any shared 
repositories - it just made repacking much more reasonable).

So maybe it was unintentional (a "bug"), but I had always seen it as being 
something good.

			Linus