Notes from the version control BOF at the summit

[Florian Weimer]

* Andrew Pinski:

> But when we export the directories from the repository there is no
> longer this information except in the ChangeLog even someone who is
> working on their own private tree which exist only in their SCM will
> not be able figure out the history of a change unless the ChangeLog
> exists still.

arch distributes changelog entries as more-or-less ordinary files.
This solves that problem, at the price of one inode per changeset.
More efficient implementations are certainly possible.

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