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jedimastertlast Sunday at 9:23 PM1 replyview on HN

It looks like the first commit was just a squash and merge, I probably would never trust a public commit history as some kind of source of truth anyways. I'm curious what your issue is?


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lafrenierejmlast Sunday at 10:19 PM

> I probably would never trust a public commit history as some kind of source of truth

What _would_ you trust as a source of truth for source code if not a public commit log? I agree that a squash commit’s timestamp in particular ought not be taken as authoritative for all of the changes in the commit, but commit history in general feels like the highest quality data most projects will ever have.

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