From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aaron Bentley Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:33:48 -0400 Message-ID: <4535685C.4010502@utoronto.ca> References: <9e4733910610140807p633f5660q49dd2d2111c9f5fe@mail.gmail.com> <200610172351.17377.jnareb@gmail.com> <4535590C.4000004@utoronto.ca> <200610180057.25411.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andreas Ericsson , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 18 02:14:15 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 1GZz4Y-00033K-R3 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:14:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751117AbWJQXdz (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:33:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751130AbWJQXdy (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:33:54 -0400 Received: from server4.panoramicfeedback.com ([66.216.124.41]:23493 "EHLO server4.panoramicfeedback.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751117AbWJQXdy (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:33:54 -0400 Received: from server4.panoramicfeedback.com ([66.216.124.41] helo=[127.0.0.1]) by server4.panoramicfeedback.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GZyRT-0005RJ-00; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:33:51 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060922) To: Jakub Narebski In-Reply-To: <200610180057.25411.jnareb@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 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 Jakub Narebski wrote: > Aaron Bentley wrote: > By the way, are bzr "bundles" compatibile with ordinary patch? > git-format-patch patches are. They have additional metainfo, > but they are patches in heart. Yes, they are. >> I'm not sure what you think Bazaar does. In Bazaar, a repository format >> plugin implements the same API that a native repository format does. >> >> This is how bzr supports Subversion, Mercurial and Git repositories. > > But if I remember correctly Subversion does not remember merge points > (merge commits), so how can you provide full Bazaar-NG compatibility > with Subversion repository as backend? Some repository formats lack > some features. That's true. We support merge points in a way that's compatible with svk. Subversion allows revisions to have arbitrary properties, and svk sets a property to indicate merges. > In git we have import tools (most of them capable of incremental import), > a few exchange tools like git-cvsexportcommit, git-cvsserver, and > Tailor-like git-svn. Bzr's subversion support is quite nice. You can commit, merge, run history viewers. There are screenshots and stuff here: http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrForeignBranches/Subversion Aaron -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFNWhc0F+nu1YWqI0RAkH7AJ4/S648shA8IKg42xcGWdjnjmA+PgCdEDhg Af/mcG+XTy3Tsb9b1x3rYcg= =xnjF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----