From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Clymer Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:36:47 -0400 Message-ID: <1161545807.22276.135.camel@zepto.home.zettazebra.com> References: <45357CC3.4040507@utoronto.ca> <4536EC93.9050305@utoronto.ca> <87lkncev90.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <453792A8.1010700@utoronto.ca> <878xjc2qeb.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <453803E6.2060309@utoronto.ca> <87ods727pn.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <45382120.9060702@utoronto.ca> <87irie1wvv.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <20061021130111.GL75501@over-yonder.net> <87ac3p1jn7.wl%cworth@cworth.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-twkn8rNfxrVoKiUez5BN" Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, Linus Torvalds , Andreas Ericsson , git@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 22 21:36:07 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gbj77-0007Zr-82 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:36:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751046AbWJVTgA (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:36:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751059AbWJVTgA (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:36:00 -0400 Received: from zettazebra.com ([72.36.162.130]:1477 "EHLO zettazebra.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751038AbWJVTgA (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:36:00 -0400 Received: from 67-23-48-101.chvlva.adelphia.net ([67.23.48.101] helo=[192.168.11.100]) by zettazebra.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.50) id 1Gbj6v-0001Sp-Hc; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:35:53 -0400 To: Carl Worth In-Reply-To: <87ac3p1jn7.wl%cworth@cworth.org> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.23.48.101 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: david@zettazebra.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --=-twkn8rNfxrVoKiUez5BN Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 13:47 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:01:11 -0500, "Matthew D. Fuller" wrote: > > I think we're getting into scratched-record-mode on this. >=20 > I apologize if I've come across as beating a dead horse on this. I've > really tried to only respond where I still confused, or there are > explicit indications that the reader hasn't understood what I was > saying, ("I don't understand how you've come to that conclusion", > etc.). I'll be even more careful about that below, labeling paragraphs > as "I'm missing something" or "Maybe I wasn't clear". >=20 > > G: So use revids everywhere. > > > > B: Revnos are handier tools for [situation] and [situation] for > > [reason] and [reason]. >=20 > I'm missing something: >=20 > I still haven't seen strong examples for this last claim. When are > they handier? I asked a couple of messages back and two people replied > that given one revno it's trivial to compute the revno of its > parent. But that's no win over git's revision specifications, > (particularly since they provide "parent of" operators). I would say that: revnos are handier tools than revids...etc I think that since G: was making a statement about revids, B: was making an implicit comparison with them. bzr log -r before:1 =20 being handier than bzr log -r before:revid:david@zettazebra.com-20061022175244-4b85cb5f0cbc79a= d -davidc --=20 gpg-key: http://www.zettazebra.com/files/key.gpg --=-twkn8rNfxrVoKiUez5BN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFO8hP2XpGgG+SNaERAgUvAKCfa9+qbbRM5DHIMNxroPwuAkcwigCg0LyO nMkWokMlS8jhluyaS1KjiSE= =lvBQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-twkn8rNfxrVoKiUez5BN--