From: Matthew D. Fuller Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:38:34 GMT Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Message-ID: <20061024003834.GE17019@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20061024002657.GD17019@over-yonder.net> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:26:57PM -0500 I heard the voice of Matthew D. Fuller, and lo! it spake thus: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 04:24:30PM -0700 I heard the voice of > Linus Torvalds, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > The problem? How do you show a commit that is _common_ to two > > branches, but has different revision names in them? > > Why would you? I beg your pardon; that was awful ambiguous of me. I meant "In such a case, where the whole purpose of what you're doing is to you're look at multiple branches to see relationships between them, why WOULD you be using branch-local identifiers for revisions at all?" -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.