From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aaron Bentley Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:51:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4535345C.6090905@utoronto.ca> References: <9e4733910610140807p633f5660q49dd2d2111c9f5fe@mail.gmail.com> <45340713.6000707@utoronto.ca> <45345AEF.6070107@utoronto.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jakub Narebski , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 17 21:52:22 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 1GZuyw-0005H4-BF for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:52:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751252AbWJQTwF (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:52:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751245AbWJQTwF (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:52:05 -0400 Received: from server4.panoramicfeedback.com ([66.216.124.41]:22209 "EHLO server4.panoramicfeedback.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751254AbWJQTwD (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:52:03 -0400 Received: from server4.panoramicfeedback.com ([66.216.124.41] helo=[192.168.2.19]) by server4.panoramicfeedback.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GZuyj-00031a-00; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:51:58 -0400 User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20060830) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Sean In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 X-Panometrics-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sean wrote: > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:24:15 -0400 > Aaron Bentley wrote: >>- - you can use a checkout to maintain a local mirror of a read-only >> branch (I do this with http://bazaar-vcs.com/bzr/bzr.dev). > > > I'm not sure what you mean here. A bzr checkout doesn't have any history > does it? By default, they do. You must use a flag to get a checkout with no history. > So it's not a mirror of a branch, but just a checkout of the > branch head? It's a mirror of a branch, and a copy of the branch's working tree. > If so, Git can export a tarball of a branch (actually a snapshot as at > any given commit) which can be mirrored out. Sure, and so can bzr. But using a checkout of the branch head means: - - No one has to do anything special to provide a working tree of a given revision - - I can still run any readonly operations I desire - - I can update to the latest version of bzr.dev with one command. Aaron -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFNTRc0F+nu1YWqI0RAsL2AKCCG0bP8m01WVllfPMzCdFZjmgEgACfeToz 57HERFJ6ZkkS3VrxLRnVPAs= =3CX7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----