A while back there was a discussion about employee retention and churn, with some parties claiming a complete staff turnover over some period was a good thing, and that documentation could serve as the complete institutional memory. I hope they read this.
Institutional memory and reverse smuggling (2011)
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Re: Institutional memory and reverse smuggling (2011)
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some git repos were ported over from SVN repos that were migrated from CVS. I never migrated anything into CVS, so I don't know if that was common at the time. But there are a lot of git repos out there with commits older than git itself (the Linux kernel itself I'm sure is the most prominent example).
> But there are a lot of git repos out there with commits older than git itself (the Linux kernel itself I'm sure is the most prominent example). No, the official Linux kernel repository is only as old as git itself (being one of the first three projects using git, the other two being sparse and git itself); the older history of the kernel was deliberately not imported into it. There are later repositories which did…