From: Aaron Bentley Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:33:48 GMT Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Message-ID: <4535685C.4010502@utoronto.ca> In-Reply-To: <200610180057.25411.jnareb@gmail.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jakub Narebski wrote: > Aaron Bentley wrote: > By the way, are bzr "bundles" compatibile with ordinary patch? > git-format-patch patches are. They have additional metainfo, > but they are patches in heart. Yes, they are. >> I'm not sure what you think Bazaar does. In Bazaar, a repository format >> plugin implements the same API that a native repository format does. >> >> This is how bzr supports Subversion, Mercurial and Git repositories. > > But if I remember correctly Subversion does not remember merge points > (merge commits), so how can you provide full Bazaar-NG compatibility > with Subversion repository as backend? Some repository formats lack > some features. That's true. We support merge points in a way that's compatible with svk. Subversion allows revisions to have arbitrary properties, and svk sets a property to indicate merges. > In git we have import tools (most of them capable of incremental import), > a few exchange tools like git-cvsexportcommit, git-cvsserver, and > Tailor-like git-svn. Bzr's subversion support is quite nice. You can commit, merge, run history viewers. There are screenshots and stuff here: http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrForeignBranches/Subversion Aaron -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFNWhc0F+nu1YWqI0RAkH7AJ4/S648shA8IKg42xcGWdjnjmA+PgCdEDhg Af/mcG+XTy3Tsb9b1x3rYcg= =xnjF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----