On Mi, 01 Nov 2017, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> Another thing I don't like (or maybe don't understand) in git is the
> existence of "garbage collection". On the contrary, a basic tenet of
> Mercurial philosophy is that history is frozen in stone, so if I let a
> clone stand without updating it for, let's say, a year, and then run
> "hg pull -u" or "hg fetch", Mercurial will be able to continue from
> where I left off and (barring timeouts and brownouts) get the clone
> back up to date. Once I did that with git, and when I came back after
> a year my clone was so hopelessly out of date that git didn't know how
> to update it: the only way I found to make it up to date again was to
> delete the clone and make a new one.
If I understood correctly garbage collection in git, this only affects
any object, that is not reachable, so it should in practice not matter
for the usual case.
> P.S. Happily for me, Christian understands both of them (or ;-) seems
> to)
More or less :)
Christian
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