A not so idle thought

[Paul Moore]

Sorry, should have sent this to the list.
Paul

2008/10/13 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com>:
> 2008/10/13 Russel Winder <russel.winder at concertant.com>:
>> The single biggest difference between Bazaar on the one hand and
>> Mercurial and Git on the other, is that Bazaar is about self-standing
>> branches and Mercurial and Git are about having branches within a single
>> repository.  In all the presentations and debates over the next year or
>> two, this is going to be the central issue.
>
> Can you clarify a little, please? I use Mercurial, and have tried
> Bazaar, and as far as I use it, Mercurial is very much about stand
> alone branches. If I want to make a change, I do "hg clone", hack,
> then merge. (There are features for dealing with in-repository
> long-lived branches, but I don't use them, and I don't believe they
> are the norm).
>
> Bazaar, on the other hand, manages branches within a shared
> repository, although these are separate filesystem directories, so I
> guess from your POV, they are "self-standing" to that extent. Using
> fully-self-standing branches (located anywhere on the filesystem) is
> generally slow enough that it's not a practical approach for large
> repos.
>
> So I'd say that Mercurial, at least, "is about self-standing branches"
> to a greater extent than Bazaar.
>
> If I can help with a Mercurial perspective (once I understand your
> point :-)) I'll be glad to do so.
> Paul.
>