From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Licquia Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:42:47 -0400 Message-ID: <1161474168.9241.188.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <45357CC3.4040507@utoronto.ca> <20061021191949.GA8096@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20061021214629.GO75501@over-yonder.net> <200610220025.32108.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: bazaar-ng-bounces@lists.canonical.com Sun Oct 22 01:42:56 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvbg-bazaar-ng@m.gmane.org Received: from esperanza.ubuntu.com ([82.211.81.173]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GbQUR-0002hk-2F for gcvbg-bazaar-ng@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:42:55 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=esperanza.ubuntu.com) by esperanza.ubuntu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GbQUP-0008NO-Eu; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:42:53 +0100 Received: from jeffindy.licquia.org ([216.37.46.185]) by esperanza.ubuntu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GbQUN-0008Mh-Cu for bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:42:51 +0100 Received: from server1.internal.licquia.org (unknown [192.168.50.3]) by jeffindy.licquia.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 802406FD88; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:42:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [192.168.52.6]) by server1.internal.licquia.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B69C980DA; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:42:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2E5E24E4025; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:42:48 -0400 (EDT) To: Jakub Narebski In-Reply-To: <200610220025.32108.jnareb@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 X-BeenThere: bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 Precedence: list List-Id: bazaar-ng discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: bazaar-ng-bounces@lists.canonical.com Errors-To: bazaar-ng-bounces@lists.canonical.com Archived-At: On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 00:25 +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote: > I wonder if searching for one's own commits isn't the sign that > the project is of one-main-developer size (i.e. small project, > without large number of distributed contributors). I think in large > project you rather ask of history of specified file, of specified part > of project (specified directory), ask about why certain change was > introduced etc. I don't think so. Recently, I've been trying to track a particular patch in the kernel. It was done as a series of commits, and probably would have been its own branch in bzr, but when I was trying to group the commits together to analyze them as a group, the easiest way to do that was by the original committer's name. Now, there's probably a better way to hunt that stuff down, but in this case hunting the user down worked for me. (It may have made a difference that I was using gitweb instead of a local clone.) And the case of hunting down your own commits is just a degenerate case of hunting down someone else's.