> One of the reasons I'm in favour of not importing the history into git
> is that a clean repository is in some ways attractive to new users.
> I'm in particular thinking of a friend of Paul's who was interested in
> doing some work on TiddlyWiki, but didn't bother in the end because
> the repository took so long to download.

As you've already stated, that won't be an issue anymore once there's a
separate repository for the core. Indeed, that new repo will be tiny
compared to most serious projects. In other words, My Hair is a Bird.

> What I am wary of here is policy being influenced by people who are
> not affected by the policy.

That sounds like you do not expect other developers to analyze or even
contribute to the core. As stated earlier*, this notion is a massive
problem of and in this community.

> In other words do Fred and Eric want the history in git because:
> a) moving the history to git is "a good thing"
> or
> b) they actually look at the history quite often, and not moving the
> history to git would be an inconvenience

Both, but primarily (b) - so I *do* expect being directly affected, both
as a (potential) core and third-party developer.

Just for the record, IMO even (a) would be sufficient, as the cost of
retaining history is negligible.


-- F.


* http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev/msg/603776133060a464

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