Any ex ClearCase or VSS users out there?

[Krzysztof Nowicki]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> 
>> I think however that with a bit of hacking it should be possible to produce a
>> full revision log of a file using the data stored in the repository, since
>> Bazaar tracks files using file ids. Am I right?
> 
> 
> So 'bzr qlog branch1 branch2' or 'bzr qlog repository' can all show you
> the history of the whole repository across branches. I don't think qlog
> supports showing the history for a single file across branches yet,
> though it certainly would be possible.
> 
> Probably the biggest difference is that the *act* of branching is not a
> versioned event. So those rectangles don't really exist for us.

As branching is concerned it's worth noting that ClearCase creates a branch of a
file when the file is first checked-out and not when the branch is created
(unless view profiles are used, which put a timestamp rule into the configspec).
This effectively means that the branchpoint for a file is invisible until the
file is first checked out. This looks similar to Bazaar, where you'd see the
branch point once you commit your first revision on the branch. The only corner
case is when you check-out a file in CC and undo the checkout leaving a branch
with just version 0. This is however considered bad practice in the CC world anyway.

> 
> Clearcase also choses to show more information inline, and side-by-side.
> I think I prefer qlog's formatting, though it would sometimes be nice to
> have parallel lines rather than one-line-per revision.

If I remember correctly, graph-ancestry from bzrtools should provide such
feature, only it doesn't allow to perform any actions on the graph. The problem
is that I never actually got it working anyway.

> 
> John
> =:->
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