From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:46:39 GMT
Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
Message-ID: <20061019114639.GD20017@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20061019112759.GA31066@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

Dear diary, on Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 01:27:59PM CEST, I got a letter
where Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> said that...
> Really, every commit. Not even the initial commit of a project is
> special -- it's just a commit with an empty parent set. And, it's
> perfectly possible to make a (merge) commit whose parents belong to
> previously disconnected parts of the DAG. This of course means that
> it's not even possible to differentiate commits based on which project
> they're part of, since one can create a commit whose parents belong to
> different projects.

FWIW, IIRC the Git project has about 6 initial commits. :-)

BTW, a popular source of horrification in other VCSes are Git's octopus
merges. (A popular source of horrification in Git are kernel developers
doing octopus merges of 40 branches at once.) Does Bazaar support those?
(I can't really say it's a defect if it doesn't...)

(An octopus merge is a merge of more than two branches at once, in a
single commit.)

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
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