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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:38:34 -0500
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:26:57PM -0500 I heard the voice of
Matthew D. Fuller, and lo! it spake thus:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 04:24:30PM -0700 I heard the voice of
> Linus Torvalds, and lo! it spake thus:
> > 
> > The problem? How do you show a commit that is _common_ to two
> > branches, but has different revision names in them?
> 
> Why would you?

I beg your pardon; that was awful ambiguous of me.  I meant "In such a
case, where the whole purpose of what you're doing is to you're look
at multiple branches to see relationships between them, why WOULD you
be using branch-local identifiers for revisions at all?"


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