Any ex ClearCase or VSS users out there?

[Maritza Mendez]

David... You are quite correct.  As a clearcase user I understand what
you mean by "patience"...I would call it "frustration" actually.  :)
I did not mean to suggest that the difference is a matter of
preference or even equivalence.  Probably my bad English.

~M

On 11/9/09, David Timothy Strauss <david at fourkitchens.com> wrote:
> ----- "Maritza Mendez" <martitzam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> [...] ClearCase fundamentally tracks history of each file, from which the
>> history of a branch must be inferred. [...] Conversely, bzr (like some
>> other tools) tracks the history of branches, from which the history of
>> individual files can be inferred.
>
> It's more than just a difference of preference. Inferring the history of a
> file from the atomic commits on a branch (the Bazaar method) is a
> theoretically sound practice. Inferring the history of a branch from changes
> to individual files requires heuristics or a lot of user patience.
>

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