VCS comparison table

Erik Bågfors zindar at gmail.com
Wed Oct 25 14:15:44 BST 2006


On 10/25/06, Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se> wrote:
> Erik Bågfors wrote:
> >
> > Creates the picture you can see at
> > http://erik.bagfors.nu/bzr-plugins/dotrepo.png
> >
>
> Looking at this picture, I found a very annoying thing with bzr's
> revids: For commits from the same author on the same day, they don't
> differ in the beginning, making all of them, at a glance, look the same.
> I got a headache just trying to figure out how to read them. It might be
> worth looking into in the future, especially if you decide to show them
> to the users.
>
> Perhaps it's just my git eyes being used to seeing the first 4 chars
> (which is all I normally look at) being different for each different
> commit, but having to look up the near-end of the string to find the
> actual difference in bzr's revids was actually a quite painful experience.

I agree, and new formats for how the revisions should look are being
discussed on the mailinglist right now.  It's not set in stone.

/Erik

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