Re: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers

From: Andrew Thompson <andrewkt@aktzero.com>
Date: Jun 28, 2005, 15:10 UTC
Message-ID: <42C16877.6000909@aktzero.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050628150027.GB1275@pasky.ji.cz>

Petr Baudis wrote:

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>>Mercurial's undo is taking a snapshot of all the changed file's repo file length
>>at every commit or pull.  It just truncate the file to original size and undo 
>>is done.
> 
> "Trunactes"? That sounds very wrong... you mean replace with old
> version? Anyway, what if the file has same length? It just doesn't make
> much sense to me.

I believe this works because the files stored in a binary format that appends new changesets onto the end. Thus, truncating the new stuff from the end effectively removes the commit.

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Andrew Thompson
http://aktzero.com/


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