RE: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark

From: Andrew Timberlake-Newell <andrew.timberlake-newell@allianceoneinc.com>
Date: Apr 29, 2005, 20:13 UTC
Message-ID: <000e01c54cf7$f61ee4a0$9b11a8c0@allianceoneinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <200504291954.MAA27561@emf.net>

Tom Lord responded to Noel Maddy:

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>   > Call me a naive git, but seems to me the "git way" is a little
>   > different. It's tree-based rather than diff-based, and doesn't involve
>   > passing diffs around, right?
> 
> Isn't that a significant part of what I said?  Go back and read more
> carefully, is my suggestion.

It looks to me like he did read carefully.

There were two different ideas:
   TL)  Passing tree & diff and trusting diff to create tree
   NM)  Passing tree and generating diff versus local tree for review

Maybe I'm reading them wrong, but that certainly looks like what each was expressing and they don't look like the same thing.

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