Whose distributed VCS is the most distributed?

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 08:10:14AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
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> 
> > The history is certainly preserved; at least, you can access the
> > individual commits if you so wish, by specifying the full revision-id of
> > the changeset you'd like to acess to.
> 
> Well, not just that (I tried it); you have to also know the revid of the
> previous changeset on the same branch.  There doesn't appear to be any
> nice way to discover that automatically.

A nitpick: you mean of the previous revision, not "changeset".  Bazaar stores
revisions, not changesets, that's why it's called a "revid" ;)

Also, if you have the bzr-gtk plugin, you can browse the history quite easily
with "bzr viz", including generating diffs against parent revisions.

-Andrew.