I've been skimming the ironically named "blame" thread and just want to clear up some apparent misconceptions. git/github is not the reason that the author/timestamps information was "lost" ... when tonel was introduced the author/timestamp info was not included in the format as a separately serialized file. filetree's implementation of author/timestamp support (around for almost 6 years now) was an annoying source of commit conflicts and often prevented automatic merges. git/github has perfectly functional blame support[1], so the decision to rely on git for supplying the author/timestamp for tonel was a sound decision. Thierry Goubier's GitFileTree[2] implementation does a very good job of converting git author/timestamp information into Monticello meta data, and is proof that author/timestamp information can be extracted from a git repository. AFAICT, the single issue here is that the code to link between git's author/timestamp information and the in-image author/timestamp information has not been written YET ... git/github is not the reason that there are "1000's of files on disk". Tonel uses a file per class format which significanly reduces the file count for Smalltalk repositories on disk. FileTree format uses a file per method format and for large projects leads to a large number of files, which in and of itself is not a problem (at least for git), but does lead to excessive disk space consumption. SmalltalkCI[2], which provides support for Smalltalk on travis-ci[3] and appveyory[4] was created by Fabio Niephaus an active member of the Squeak community. Travis-ci makes it possible to run cross-dialect tests to validate github pull requests and checkins[5] for cross-dialect projects. It seems that there are at least some (less vocal) members of the Squeak community who are interested in using git. Dale [1] https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-blame [2] https://github.com/hpi-swa/smalltalkCI [3] https://travis-ci.org/ [4] https://www.appveyor.com/ [5] https://travis-ci.org/Metacello/metacello