An un-tapped benefit of Bazaar over the other DVCS's?

Inky 788 inky788 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 04:06:09 BST 2009


I was watching a talk online about Git (maybe the one by Randal S.?)
and I'm pretty sure the point was clearly made that Git tracks changes
in *content* rather than changes in individual files.

It may be that Mercurial does the same thing. Not sure.

The point was also made that, due to this particular feature, it might
not be very beneficial to use Git for putting your `/etc` or your home
dir under version control -- since the files don't really have
anything to do with eachother as a whole.

If Bazaar is different than this, and if it would work well for
putting `/etc` or `~` under VC, you might mention that fact on the
BzrVsGit and BzrVsHg pages (linked to from
<http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrWhy>).



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