Live data from Hacker News

Institutional memory and reverse smuggling (2011)

landley.net

51–52 of 52 posts

Re: Institutional memory and reverse smuggling (2011)

#51
post #3

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.

Writing and maintaining good documentation is hard, which in business terms means expensive. If a company doesn’t want to pay enough to reduce turnover it likely would not invest into documentation either. And even is it will no documentation would quickly turn a novice into a seasoned expert.

Re: Institutional memory and reverse smuggling (2011)

#52
post #37

Earlier 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…

Yes, I was talking about the unofficial "historical" repos, not the official git repo that everyone works off of. I should have been more clear.
Post reply on HN