To The Victors Go The…

08/03/2012

From an IRC conversation today:

<[redacted]> github just deployed a feature that allows me to edit [redacted²]‘s comments in our pull requests without him getting any notification that I changed what he said

<[redacted]> lot’s of R+s coming my way now

<SoberBuildEng> [redacted]: that seems… huh?

<[readcted]> SoberBuildEng: I _think_ it is because I am an organization admin … but you think there would be some kind of trail

<[redacted]> such as ‘so and so admin deleted your comment’
…
<redacted> just kind of surprises me that when your business is version control, your process tools allow arbitrary erasure and modification of history

<SoberBuildEng> uh

<SoberBuildEng> git allows arbitrary erasure and modification of history

<SoberBuildEng> so it doesn’t surprise me that github doesn’t see that as a problem.

<[redacted]> ok. fair point

<[redacted³> just think how much cooler Office Space would have turn out if they were running git and could control commit history?

<SoberBuildEng> just think how much cooler the banking crisis would’ve been if they were running git, and could control commit history?

How’s that saying go?

“History is penned by the victors?”