Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git wiki

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: May 5, 2006, 16:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20060505163629.GZ27689@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20060505005659.9092.qmail@science.horizon.com>

Dear diary, on Fri, May 05, 2006 at 02:56:59AM CEST, I got a letter where linux@horizon.com said that...

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> Actually, AFAICT from looking at the mailing list history, it's not dirty
> politics: the tie-breaker was the support and enthusiasm of the mercurial
> developers.  It passed with only minor comment on the git mailing list,
> but it was a Big Thing to the hg folks.
> 
> There are ups and downs.  OpenSolaris is definitely the big fish in
> the mercurial pond (that wasn't *meant* to sound like a recipe for
> heavy metal toxicity), and will get lots of attention, but git has more
> real-world experience.  The big fish in the git pond is Linus and Linux.
> 
> In any case, mercurial and git are really very similar, far closer
> to each other than any third system, so it's not like the decision is
> a descent into heresy.  Hopefully some useful cross-pollination
> can occur, and converting history from one to the other would be
> simple if anyone ever wanted to.

It's a philosophical question here, but I'd say that Git is much closer to Monotone than to any other version control system - I think it can be described as Monotone model with more elegant implementation (for some, at least ;), no certificates and restriction of one head per branch. And another important difference is that Monotone has persistent file identifiers, but I think that's about the only thing that would make Monotone more "file orientated".

I'm not much of a Mercurial pro but it appears to me that the architectural differences there are larger, especially wrt. the revlogs and wholly quite a more file-oriented model.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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