From: Matthew D. Fuller Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:13:19 GMT Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Message-ID: <20061019161319.GA75501@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:25:26AM -0700 I heard the voice of Linus Torvalds, and lo! it spake thus: > > The biggest difference seems to be that in bzr, the final checksum > is 64-bit, Actually, as best I know, it's not a checksum, just random bits (a quick glance at the code seems to agree with me). > Note that from a usability standpoint, the UUID's look more readable > to a human, but are actually much worse [...] This I agree with, at least in part. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.