Re: VCS comparison table
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- Erik Bågfors <zindar@gmail.com>
- Date
- Oct 25, 2006, 13:15 UTC
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- <845b6e870610250615t713ebeaewcab3050446fc25a6@mail.gmail.com>
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- <453F5B73.2050504@op5.se>
On 10/25/06, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
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> Erik Bågfors wrote: > > > > Creates the picture you can see at > > http://erik.bagfors.nu/bzr-plugins/dotrepo.png > > > > Looking at this picture, I found a very annoying thing with bzr's > revids: For commits from the same author on the same day, they don't > differ in the beginning, making all of them, at a glance, look the same. > I got a headache just trying to figure out how to read them. It might be > worth looking into in the future, especially if you decide to show them > to the users. > > Perhaps it's just my git eyes being used to seeing the first 4 chars > (which is all I normally look at) being different for each different > commit, but having to look up the near-end of the string to find the > actual difference in bzr's revids was actually a quite painful experience.
I agree, and new formats for how the revisions should look are being discussed on the mailinglist right now. It's not set in stone.
/Erik
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