From: Petr Baudis Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:28:18 GMT Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Message-ID: <20061017232818.GF20017@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: <453532A5.6060701@utoronto.ca> Dear diary, on Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:44:37PM CEST, I got a letter where Aaron Bentley said that... > Andreas Ericsson wrote: > >> In our terminology, if it can diverge from the original, it's a branch, > >> not a checkout. > >> > > > > This clears things up immensely. bazaar checkout != git checkout. > > I still fail to see how a local copy you can't commit to is useful > > My bzr is run from a local copy I can't commit to. To get the latest > changes from http://bazaar-vcs.org, I can run "bzr update ~/bzr/dev". > To merge the latest changes into my branch, I can run > "bzr merge ~/bzr/dev". It's also convenient for applying other peoples' > patches to. The question is, why is it useful to enforce the "no commit" rule? Git can work exactly the same, it just doesn't _enforce_ the rule. And is the capability of enforcing such a rule important enough to warrant its own column in the comparison table?