Maybe E. Timothy Uy is the person behind http://repo.or.cz/w/sqlite.git ?

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote:

> On Nov 3, 2014, at 7:01 PM, E. Timothy Uy <t...@loqu8.com> wrote:
>
> > Is that a philosophical question? :)
>
> No, it’s a persuasion challenge.
>
> I’ll propose it in two parts:
>
> 1. Why is it a good idea for you, E. Timothy Uy, to dump the SQLite code
> repo into a Git repo?  What does this achieve, that keeping it in Fossil
> does not?
>
> 2. Why is it a good idea for our BDFL, D. Richard Hipp, to modify the
> SQLite repo to make it easier for you to dump it into a Git repo?  Keep in
> mind that the costs here are not just his time, but also the loss of a test
> case.
>
> I don’t think you can convince anyone that #2 is a good idea, but I’m
> curious about why #1 is a good idea.
>
> Bonus persuasion point 3: Why not persuade the Git people to modify their
> tool to cope with time warps?  Isn’t their major value proposition w.r.t
> the other open source DVCSes that Git is more powerful and flexible?  Here
> we see Fossil doing something Git cannot or will not do, and it’s not a
> matter of mission scope, as with the bug tracker or wiki features of Fossil.
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