Re: git and time

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 3, 2006, 00:01 UTC
Message-ID: <efs97p$jnd$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609261849430.3952@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> Now, in some sense, you can ignore the difference between the two models, 
> since you'd think that they are totally equivalent: from the git model, 
> you can always get the "changeset" by just diffing the current state with 
> the previous state, and conversely from the "changeset" model you can 
> always get the "current state" by just applying the changeset to the 
> previous state.

And if I understand correctly, that is how StGit and pg (Patchy Git), which are patch management applications similar in the purpose to the Quilt, and are based on Git, works.

http://wiki.procode.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/StGITtheory

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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