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Re: Mercurial's only true "plugin" extension: inotify... and can it be done in Git?

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 11, 2008, 10:00 UTC
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<200803111100.10302.jnareb@gmail.com>
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Andreas Ericsson wrote:
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> Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > 
> > Mercurial extension | git equivalent (or proposal)
> > --------------------+------------------------------------
> > bisect              | git-bisect
> > 
> > Footnotes:
> > ==========
> > (*) Directly inspired by git feature
> > (!) No direct equivalent, would be quite a work to add
> > (!!!) No equivalent, don't know if possible
> > 
> 
> IIRC, bisect should have a star here (or five, as it's a killer
> feature).

I was not sure if bisect extension didn't come to Mercurial from/via BitKeeper; IIRC it was added at request of Linux kernel, but I might be mistaken...

So in short: the star isn't here because I was not sure.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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  1. Jakub NarebskiMar 9, 2008
  2. Jakub NarebskiMar 10, 2008
  3. Andreas EricssonMar 11, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 11, 2008
  5. Andreas EricssonMar 11, 2008
  6. Jakub NarebskiMar 11, 2008
  7. Geert BoschMar 10, 2008
  8. Shawn O. PearceMar 10, 2008
  9. J. Bruce FieldsMar 10, 2008
  10. Jakub NarebskiMar 15, 2008

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