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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 11, 2008, 09:48 UTC
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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
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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).

Heh, why do we even care? It is a norm that good features cross pollinate across systems and who borrows ideas from whom does not really matter much.

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Message 4 of 10 in “Mercurial's only true "plugin" extension: inotify... and can it be done in Git?”
  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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