From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:12:22 -0400 Message-ID: <20061020141222.GA17497@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <200610180246.18758.jnareb@gmail.com> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Carl Worth , Linus Torvalds , Jakub Narebski , Andreas Ericsson , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 20 16:13:12 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 1Gav6r-0004WX-CG for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:12:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751714AbWJTOMZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:12:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751713AbWJTOMZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:12:25 -0400 Received: from 66-23-211-5.clients.speedfactory.net ([66.23.211.5]:29414 "HELO peff.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751712AbWJTOMZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:12:25 -0400 Received: (qmail 25588 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2006 10:12:23 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by 66-23-211-5.clients.speedfactory.net with SMTP; 20 Oct 2006 10:12:23 -0400 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:12:22 -0400 To: Aaron Bentley Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45382120.9060702@utoronto.ca> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:06:40PM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote: > What's nice is being able see the revno 753 and knowing that "diff -r > 752..753" will show the changes it introduced. Checking the revo on a > branch mirror and knowing how out-of-date it is. I was accustomed to doing such things in CVS, but I find the git way much more pleasant, since I don't have to do any arithmetic: diff d8a60^..d8a60 (Yes, I am capable of performing subtraction in my head, but I find that a "parent-of" operator matches my cognitive model better, especially when you get into things like d8a60^2~3). Does bzr have a similar shorthand for mentioning relative commits? -Peff