VCS comparison table

[Jan Hudec]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 03:05:22PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Jan Hudec wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 12:05:35AM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> >> Tim Webster wrote:
> >> > Also svn does not allow files in the same directory to live in
> >> > multiple repos
> >> 
> >> It would surprise me if many SCMs that support atomic commit also
> >> support intermixing files from multiple repos in the same directory.
> > 
> > In fact I think svk would. You would have to switch them by setting
> > an environment variable, but it's probably doable. That is because
> > unlike other version control systems, it does not store the information
> > about checkout in the checkout, but in the central directory and that
> > can be set. I don't know git well enough to tell whether git could do
> > the same by setting GIT_DIR.
> 
> You can very simply embed one "clothed" repository into another in GIT,
> like shown below
> 
>   project/.git
>   project/subdir/
>   project/subdir/file
>   project/subproject/
>   project/subproject/.git
>   project/subproject/file
>   ...
> 
> It depends on circumstances if one wants files belonging to subdirectory
> be ignored by top repository. You would want to ignore .git/ directory,
> though.

Yes, you can do that with bzr and most other tools I know of as well.
But I understand the original question as requesting the working trees
to be rooted at the same place (ie. all in /etc), because each has some
files and some directories that have to be placed next to each other.

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                  				- Jan Hudec `Bulb' <bulb at ucw.cz>