Re: [VOTE] git versus mercurial (for DragonflyBSD)

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 27, 2008, 14:57 UTC
Message-ID: <200810271557.37196.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <fa27bd940810270729w488edd2clbd309093062558d6@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, 0000 vk wrote:

> 2008/10/27 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>

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> > By the way, going back to the matter of choosing version control
> > system for DragonflyBSD; some time ago I have written post
> >  * "Mercurial's only true "plugin" extension: inotify...
> >    and can it be done in Git?"
> >   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/76661
> >   (current answer: it is possible using 'assume unchanged' bit)
> > about how nearly every Mercurial extension has equivalent functionality
> > in Git.
> >
> > But what about the reverse, about the following features and
> > issues in Mercurial:

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> 
> Jakub,
> 
> Do you know if git supports the equivalent of hg bundle?
> Thanks.

The equivalent of "hg bundle" (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hg.1.html#bundle) would be "git bundle" (http://git.or.cz/man/git-bundle). I think git-bundle was inspired by Mercurial feature, just like fast-import format and bisect went in other direction.

P.S. Could you _please_ quote only relevant fragments of email you are replying to, especially if it is so long?

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Jakub Narebski
Poland