Brief article on benchmarks of Python repository with leading DVCSen

[Colin D Bennett]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:32:07 -0500
Barry Warsaw <barry at canonical.com> wrote:

> > 2009/2/13 Barry Warsaw <barry at canonical.com>:
> > […] But
> > bundles (hg or bzr) are not what I'd call "live", they are more a type
> > of enhanced, multi-changeset, patch, as I understand them. You can't
> > push to them, for example. (But maybe that's just my inexperience
> > speaking, I've never been involved in the type of highly distributed
> > environment you seem to be describing).
> 
> Maybe bundles are kind of the undead of branches.  They're not quite  
> as live as the branch, but they've got more get-up-and-go than a  
> patch.  The nice thing about bundles is that the carry with them  
> history and all the other goo such that I can take a bundle and merge  
> it and there's no effective difference between that and merging in a  
> branch.

In many cases, the static, “non-live,” self-sufficient nature of
patches or bundles may actually be desirable.  For instance, if you
post an actual branch and then a discussion ensues on a bug report or
other public forum, unless the specific branch revision is always
identified, confusion could result if changes are made to the branch
mid-discussion.

Regards,
Colin
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