Re: VCS comparison table
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- Ryan Anderson <rda@google.com>
- Date
- Oct 18, 2006, 03:25 UTC
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On 10/17/06, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley@utoronto.ca> wrote:
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> > In other words, the empty merge is totally semantically empty even in the > > bazaar world. Why does it exist? > > It exists because it is useful. Because it makes the behavior of bzr > merge uniform. Because in some workflows, commits show that a person > has signed off on a change.
In the Git world that happens via "git tag -s", i.e, a cryptographically strong "signoff". (There's also the secondary convention of appending Signed-off-by: to email-applied patches, but that's something that would translate effectively to any other system, since it's outside the SCM.)