From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:05:25 +0200 Message-ID: <200610221105.26421.jnareb@gmail.com> References: <453A7D7E.8060105@utoronto.ca> <20061022074513.GF29927@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Aaron Bentley , Carl Worth , Linus Torvalds , Andreas Ericsson , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 22 11:05:26 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 1GbZGj-00022W-D8 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:05:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932303AbWJVJFQ convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:05:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932304AbWJVJFQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:05:16 -0400 Received: from hu-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.214.238]:11944 "EHLO hu-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932303AbWJVJFO (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:05:14 -0400 Received: by hu-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 28so737122hub for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:05:13 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=YWgp2LuxW2Kg/MkrrtYKTDC1OUqIDM7SgT11ZsIWU0WLi1zc6WX0wHbeMagWvelfJ51WpyCyJHDewAuR34P8VzGZ2tCToUybBp+ftYth2flMCXiVba/nljW7qIOmidaxqmkJQuTUyNC77FrFF4I+SwSNaWxocOlZ9yyqAyLS3d8= Received: by 10.67.97.7 with SMTP id z7mr5067602ugl; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:05:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from host-81-190-23-110.torun.mm.pl ( [81.190.23.110]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id s7sm957410uge.2006.10.22.02.05.11; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:05:12 -0700 (PDT) To: Jan Hudec User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 In-Reply-To: <20061022074513.GF29927@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jan Hudec wrote: > On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 04:05:18PM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote: >> Carl Worth wrote: >>> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:06:40 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote: >>>> Bazaar encourages you to stick lots and lots of branches in your >>>> repository. =A0They don't even have to be related. =A0For example,= my repo >>>> contains branches of bzr, bzrtools, Meld, and BazaarInspect. >>>=20 >>> Git allows this just fine. And lots of branches belonging to a sing= le >>> project is definitely the common usage. It is not common (nor >>> encouraged) for unrelated projects to share a repository, since a g= it >>> clone will fetch every branch in the repository. >>=20 >> Right. =A0This is a difference between Bazaar and Git that's I'd >> characterize as being "branch-oriented" vs "repository-oriented". =A0= We'll >> see more of this below. >=20 > This is one of things I on the other hand like better on bzr than git= =2E > Because it is really branches and not repositories that I usually car= e > about. That's probably because you are used to Bazaar-NG, and your habits speaking. Think of git clone of repository as of bzr "branch". =46or example git encourages using many short and longer-lived feature branches; I don't see bzr encouraging this workflow. --=20 Jakub Narebski Poland