From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:13:19 -0500 Message-ID: <20061019161319.GA75501@over-yonder.net> References: <9e4733910610140807p633f5660q49dd2d2111c9f5fe@mail.gmail.com> <45357411.20500@utoronto.ca> <200610180246.18758.jnareb@gmail.com> <45357CC3.4040507@utoronto.ca> <4536EC93.9050305@utoronto.ca> <87lkncev90.wl%cworth@cworth.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Carl Worth , Andreas Ericsson , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 19 18:13:54 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 1GaaWY-00045F-IJ for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:13:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946173AbWJSQNV (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:13:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946176AbWJSQNV (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:13:21 -0400 Received: from ns.centralmiss.com ([206.156.254.79]:56045 "EHLO optimus.centralmiss.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946173AbWJSQNU (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:13:20 -0400 Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (adsl-072-148-013-213.sip.jan.bellsouth.net [72.148.13.213]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by optimus.centralmiss.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6DB92842A; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:13:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 32F5C61C52; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:13:19 -0500 (CDT) To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11-fullermd.3 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:25:26AM -0700 I heard the voice of Linus Torvalds, and lo! it spake thus: > > The biggest difference seems to be that in bzr, the final checksum > is 64-bit, Actually, as best I know, it's not a checksum, just random bits (a quick glance at the code seems to agree with me). > Note that from a usability standpoint, the UUID's look more readable > to a human, but are actually much worse [...] This I agree with, at least in part. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.