From: Jakub Narebski Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:05:25 GMT Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Message-ID: <200610221105.26421.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20061022074513.GF29927@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Jan Hudec wrote: > On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 04:05:18PM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote: >> Carl Worth wrote: >>> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:06:40 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote: >>>> Bazaar encourages you to stick lots and lots of branches in your >>>> repository.  They don't even have to be related.  For example, my repo >>>> contains branches of bzr, bzrtools, Meld, and BazaarInspect. >>> >>> Git allows this just fine. And lots of branches belonging to a single >>> project is definitely the common usage. It is not common (nor >>> encouraged) for unrelated projects to share a repository, since a git >>> clone will fetch every branch in the repository. >> >> Right.  This is a difference between Bazaar and Git that's I'd >> characterize as being "branch-oriented" vs "repository-oriented".  We'll >> see more of this below. > > This is one of things I on the other hand like better on bzr than git. > Because it is really branches and not repositories that I usually care > about. That's probably because you are used to Bazaar-NG, and your habits speaking. Think of git clone of repository as of bzr "branch". For example git encourages using many short and longer-lived feature branches; I don't see bzr encouraging this workflow. -- Jakub Narebski Poland