Re: VCS comparison table
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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
- Date
- Oct 17, 2006, 14:08 UTC
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
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> While email can be used to exchange patches (git-format-patch to > generate patches, git-send-mail to send patches if you don't want to > use ordinary email client, git-am to apply patches) it cannot be used > to exchange all information (one cannot send for example tags, or merge > commits).
In bzr, the "bundle" appears like a patch, but it actually contain the same information as the revision(s) it contains (I believe this applies to hg and Darcs too). A bundle can be used almost like a branch. That's a key point, since revision identity is not based on content's hash, so applying a patch is very different from merging a bundle.
> It is very usefull tool to have for "accidental" developer.
That's the key point, but patch review for non-accidental developpers is also good :-).
> BTW. git can provide binary patch for binary files (e.g. adding favicon > for gitweb in git.git).
Bazaar's bundle use base64 encoding for binaries. I don't think that's efficient binary diff (xdelta-like) though. Aaron has been fighting quite a lot with MUA and MTA mixing up the patches (line ending in particular) ...