From: Matthieu Moy Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:08:41 GMT Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200610171555.56778.jnareb@gmail.com> Jakub Narebski writes: > 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) ...