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

Torsten Bronger bronger at physik.rwth-aachen.de
Wed Aug 12 08:06:13 BST 2009


Hallöchen!

Stephen J. Turnbull writes:

> Inky 788 writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> No, git (and Mercurial and bzr) at one level track changes in a
> *tree* of directories and the files they contain.  At another
> level, they all track changes in content for efficiency in
> operations like diff.  There is a fine point about tracking
> "containers", which git does not do and bzr does (I don't know
> about Mercurial).  But that's a fine point not relevant to
> tracking collections of unrelated files.

So a "blame" which follows movements of, say, a function through
various files -- which git is so proud of -- is simply a not yet
added functionality in Bazaar, but nothing that is prevented by the
way Bazaar works (or would be unbearably slow)?

Tschö,
Torsten.

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