Re: VCS comparison table
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
- Date
- Oct 18, 2006, 00:39 UTC
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- <20061018003920.GK20017__14424.2265880623$1161134820$gmane$org@pasky.or.cz>
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- <45357596.8050702@utoronto.ca>
Dear diary, on Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 02:30:14AM CEST, I got a letter where Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley@utoronto.ca> said that...
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> Petr Baudis wrote: > > Another aspect of this is that Git (Linus ;) is very focused on getting > > the history right, nice and clean (though it does not _mandate_ it and > > you can just wildly do one commit after another; it just provides tools > > to easily do it). > > Yes, rebasing is very uncommon in the bzr community. We would rather > evaluate the complete change than walk through its history. (Bundles > only show the changes you made, not the changes you merged from the > mainline.) > > In an earlier form, bundles contained a patch for every revision, and > people *hated* reading them. So there's definitely a cultural > difference there.
BTW, I think what describes the Git's (kernel's) stance very nicely is what I call the Al Viro's "homework problem":
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/7/176
If I understand you right, the bzr approach is what's described as "the dumbest kind" there? (No offense meant!)
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Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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