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[Jakub Narebski]

Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Then, one other difference is in the UI. bzr shows you commits in a
> kind of hierarchical maner, like (fictive example, that's not the real
> exact format).
> 
> $ bzr log
> commiter: upstream at maintainer.com
> message:
>   merged the work on a feature
>   ------
>   commiter: contributor at site.com
>   message:
>     prepared for feature X
>   ------
>   commiter: contributor at site.com
>   message:
>     implemented feature X
>   ------
>   commiter: contributor at site.com
>   message:
>     added testcase for feature X
> ------
> commiter: upstream at maintainer.com
> message:
>   something else
> 
> No big difference in the model either, but it probably reveals a
> different vision of what "history" means.

We have in GIT git-show-branch command for that (although it
has quite strange UI, and shows only title of commit), we
can do "git log | git name-rev --stdin", or better use graphical
history viewers like gitk (Tcl/Tk) or qgit (Qt). Graphical history
viewers are a must with more complicated history. 

Bazaar-NG has bzr-gtk.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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