From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:52:36 +0200 Message-ID: <453F33E4.2000708@op5.se> References: <45357CC3.4040507@utoronto.ca> <20061021191949.GA8096@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20061021214629.GO75501@over-yonder.net> <200610220025.32108.jnareb@gmail.com> <1161474168.9241.188.camel@localhost.localdomain> <8764ed1b7z.wl%cworth@cworth.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:52:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jeff Licquia , Jakub Narebski , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) In-Reply-To: <8764ed1b7z.wl%cworth@cworth.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GcfRC-0002NI-HK for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:52:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423159AbWJYJwj (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:52:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423168AbWJYJwj (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:52:39 -0400 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:63672 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423159AbWJYJwj (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:52:39 -0400 Received: by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix, from userid 588) id C8DC46BDE3; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:52:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.20] (unknown [213.88.215.14]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44486BD5E; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:52:36 +0200 (CEST) To: Carl Worth Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Carl Worth wrote: > On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:42:47 -0400, Jeff Licquia wrote: >> I don't think so. Recently, I've been trying to track a particular >> patch in the kernel. It was done as a series of commits, and probably >> would have been its own branch in bzr, but when I was trying to group >> the commits together to analyze them as a group, the easiest way to do >> that was by the original committer's name. > > As far as "its own branch in bzr" would such a branch remain available > indefinitely even after being merged in to the main tree? > >> Now, there's probably a better way to hunt that stuff down, but in this >> case hunting the user down worked for me. (It may have made a >> difference that I was using gitweb instead of a local clone.) > > Vast, huge, gaping, cosmic difference. > > Almost none of the power of git is exposed by gitweb. It's really not > worth comparing. (Now a gitweb-alike that provided all the kinds of > very easy browsing and filtering of the history like gitk and git > might be nice to have.) > There was one, but it got discontinued due to performance issues. Shame that, because it would have been nice to have to show "foreign" visitors how gitk/qgit works. It would especially show the way git thinks about branches and stuff like that. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se