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

[Mark Williamson]

On Wednesday 12 August 2009 04:06:09 Inky 788 wrote:
> 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.

Mercurial tracks changes to files as a revlog, so it is a file-oriented format 
(presumably analogous to bzr, though I'm not familiar with its format) rather 
than a content-oriented format like git has.

Cheers,
Mark

> 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>).