Bazaar is ignored in some places?
Matt Nordhoff
mnordhoff at mattnordhoff.com
Tue Dec 11 19:29:52 GMT 2007
Erik Bågfors wrote:
> On 2007 dec 11, at 19.52, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
>>
>> Matt Nordhoff ?8H5B:
>>>> ---
>>>> ---
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> ** (g) Changesets' Support
>>>>
>>>> Does the repository supports changesets? Changesets are a way to
>>>> group a number
>>>> of modifications that are relevant to each other in one atomic
>>>> package, that
>>>> can be cancelled or propagated as needed.
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Answer:
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>
>> I'm not sure here. Probably no.
>
> I think this is a question of definition. My first reaction was that
> with that definition the answer should be yes.
>
> While it could be read in a another way so that only really darcs would
> fit. (of the systems that I know of at least)
>
> Personally I don't like this kind of comparison because it is very much
> based on what the author of the questions thinks is important which may
> not match with what the designers of a specific vcs believes is
> important. Also you get a mix of therminology. He talks of repository
> where we would sometimes talk about branch and he talks about changeset
> in a way that is different from how I would define changeset.
I think you guys are right. Different terminology. I was thinking of
"changeset" in the way hg uses the term: the same thing as bzr "revisions".
(I hand-edited the > characters because they were *really* messed up.
I'm pretty sure I got it right.)
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