Saturday November 6, 2010
There's a short answer and a long answer, the long answer being much more interesting
Wednesday September 29, 2010
"There is still a deep gap between those of us who have been involved in the computer revolution and those that are still starting to understand deep changes like this culture of the differences that they would call historiography, as Bridle does."
"[svn, git, diff] store and help us manage the whole history of a project, every single change that happened to it since it started. The repeated exposure to the list of changes, especially in projects that have sizable teams, helps us to understand the intention of the programmers that developed the code, the parallel processes going on, the programmers' fashion of different seasons... In other words, the culture of the community."