Hi nicolai we should really fix that. I know that it is painful because we got out our confort zone. I really hope that we will be able to do something better. Now what we should do is incrementally rebuild a better system. About the git support on windows. I thought it was working what is the problem on your side?
Stef On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Nicolai Hess <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2017-07-10 11:22 GMT+02:00 Alistair Grant <[email protected]>: >> >> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:15:27AM +0200, Nicolai Hess wrote: >> > >> > 2017-07-10 10:31 GMT+02:00 Pavel Krivanek <[email protected]>: >> > >> > However the real question is if we need them in the form we had them >> > until >> > now because they are flattened as soon as a new changes file >> > (release) is >> > created and it stores only information about the last person who >> > touched >> > the method, not about the author nor wider history. >> > >> > For me, YES! >> > >> > I always take this data as a hint to track down bugs. Especially in >> > this community were different people do bug fixes or introduce >> > something new /change something, it is really helpfull and valueable >> > to track this changes by the method history. (not only *who* did the >> > change, but also, in what context, what else had changed. And I think >> > it is much easier to do this from within the image instead of looking >> > at the git diff). >> >> Are the two really mutually exclusive? Given the move to Iceberg >> wouldn't it make sense to extend Iceberg to be able to analyse the git >> history from within the image? > > > > No, they are not mutually exclusive, it is just that you can not see the > history now. > Maybe iceberg will solve this, but for now you can not see the history > (and as a windows user, I can not even use iceberg). > > >> >> >> >> > That hte history is already lost when we created a new changes/sources >> > for release is something that always disturbed me. And I hoped there >> > would be some way to reload the "real" history with all intermediate >> > changes. >> >> Cheers, >> Alistair >> >> >
