RE: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark

From: Tom Lord <lord@emf.net>
Date: Apr 29, 2005, 20:26 UTC
Message-ID: <200504292026.NAA28131@emf.net>
In-Reply-To: <000e01c54cf7$f61ee4a0$9b11a8c0@allianceoneinc.com>

  > 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

Well, I guess *you* didn't read carefully. I also spoke about the value of passing around triples: ancestry, diff, and tree. The question is about linking signatures to things that humans can reasonably *intend* and be reasonably held accountable for, hence one of the values of signed diffs. (I cited other practical reasons to value signed diffs and use them in specific ways, too.)

-t

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