VCS comparison table
David Lang
dlang at digitalinsight.com
Mon Oct 23 23:28:34 BST 2006
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
>
> I don't understand the thrust of this, either. As I understand the
> operation you're talking about, it doesn't have anything to do with a
> branch; you'd just be whipping the working tree around to different
> versions. That should be O(diff) on any modern VCS.
on many modern VCS systems it's O(n) on the number of changes (start from where
you are and apply the patch to change it to rev -1, then apply the patch to
change it to rev -2, etc)
on git it's O(1) (write the new files into place)
David Lang
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