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[Chris Hecker]

> FWIW, git and bzr deduplicate storing renamed files in roughly the
> same way. In both VCSes renaming a file generally shouldn't cause
> that files contents to be stored more than once.

I didn't test git because back when I tested this git was terrible on
windows, but hg duplicated the file in the repo.  I thought renames
weren't "first class" in git repos, so I assumed it was the same.

Chris


On 2012/11/24 18:55, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 18:20 -0800, Chris Hecker wrote:
>> I may be in the minority, but I don't care that much about the ui or
>> simplicity of the command line, but I need to be able to rename files
>> without duplicating them in the repo, I want empty directories, I want
>> the hybrid centralized stuff (and more of this, actually), and I need
>> windows support to be good.
> FWIW, git and bzr deduplicate storing renamed files in roughly the same
> way. In both VCSes renaming a file generally shouldn't cause that files
> contents to be stored more than once.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jelmer
> 
>> On 2012/11/24 14:02, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 12:34 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>>>> On Nov 23, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>>>>> For myself to be interested in contributing to Bazaar (and I suspect for
>>>>> others as well), I think it's important to have a vision for the
>>>>> project. Retrospectives would be useful here.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've considered doing a friendly fork (no CLA's, etc) of Bazaar that
>>>>> integrated bzr-git and bzr-fastimport (and perhaps other plugins) and
>>>>> switched it to the git format as the default format, rather than 2a.
>>>>> That way it would just be another part of the git ecosystem rather than
>>>>> its own small corner of the world.
>>>>
>>>> As you know, I've advocated for something like this for many years.  I know
>>>> when we've talked about this in the past, it was pointed out that git format
>>>> doesn't support everything that 2a supports.  You'd know the details much
>>>> better than I, but IIRC, renames and directory tracking were the two main
>>>> missing features.  Still, it might be easier to join forces and lobby for
>>>> improvements in git format from within.
>>> You have. :-) bzr-git has some experimental support for tracking empty
>>> directories, renames and revision properties in the git format. It still
>>> needs a lot of work before that is usable in production though (just run
>>> the bzr repository tests against bzr-git to see).
>>>
>>>> I don't see Bazaar or Mercurial going away any time soon, but I think git has
>>>> basically won top dog.  So I'd vote for making it usable for normal humans by
>>>> keeping as much of Bazaar's superior ui and model as possible.
>>> Agreed.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Jelmer
>>>
>>>
>>>
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