VCS comparison table
Aaron Bentley
aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Tue Oct 17 21:01:50 BST 2006
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Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Aaron Bentley wrote:
>> Ah. Bazaar uses negative numbers to refer to <n>th parents, and
>> positive numbers to refer to the number of commits that have been made
>> since the branch was initialized.
>>
>
> What do you do once a branch has been thrown away, or has had 20 other
> branches merged into it? Does the offset-number change for the revision
> then, or do you track branch-points explicitly?
We always track the number of parents since the initial commit in the
project. Sorry, I don't think I said that clearly before.
>> If I understand correctly, in Bazaar, you'd just merge the current work
>> into 'xx/topic'.
>>
>
> merge != rebase though, although they are indeed similar. Let's take the
> example of a 'master' branch and topic branch topicA. If you rebase
> topicA onto 'master', development will appear to have been serial.
Ah, now I see what you mean, and the "graft" plugin mentioned by others
fills that role. I've never used it, though.
> If
> you instead merge them, it will either register as a real merge or, if
> the branch tip of 'master' is the branch start-point of topicA, it will
> result in a "fast-forward" where 'master' is just updated to the
> branch-tip of 'topicA'.
Interesting. We don't do 'fast-forward' in that case.
>> I'm not sure what you mean by API, unless you mean the commandline. If
>> that's what you mean, surely all unix commands are extensible in that
>> regard.
>>
>
> I'm fairly certain he's talking about the API in the sense it's being
> talked about in every other application. Extensive work has been made to
> libify a lot of the git code, which means that most git commands are
> made up of less than 400 lines of C code, where roughly 80% of the code
> is command-specific (i.e., argument parsing and presentation).
Ah, okay.
So it sounds to me like git is extensible, though not as thoroughly as bzr.
Aaron
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