VCS comparison table

Carl Worth cworth at cworth.org
Tue Oct 24 01:47:39 BST 2006


On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:26:57 -0500, "Matthew D. Fuller" wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 04:24:30PM -0700 I heard the voice of
> Linus Torvalds, and lo! it spake thus:
> >
> > The problem? How do you show a commit that is _common_ to two
> > branches, but has different revision names in them?
>
> Why would you?

Assume you've got two long-lived branches and one periodically gets
merged into the other one. The combined history might look as follows
(more recent commits first):

 f   g
 |   |
 d   e
 |\ /
 b c
 |/
 a

The point is that it is extremely nice to be able to visualize things
that way. Say I've got a "dev" branch that points at f and a "stable"
branch that points at g. With this, a command like:

	gitk dev stable

would result in a picture just like the above. Can a similar figure be
made with bzr? Or only the following two separate pictures:

 f    g
 |    |
 d    e
 |\   |
 b c  c
 |/   |
 a    a

-Carl
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