Re: git and bzr

["Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>]

On 11/29/06, Nicholas Allen <nick.allen@onlinehome.de> wrote:
> yes I can see if you just use plain patches. In bzr though there are
> bundles that store extra data along with the patch and if you use this
> instead of a simple patch this will never be a problem as bzr can then
> notice the same bundle being merged into 2 branches.

Well, there you start depending on everyone using bzr and providing
metadata-added patches. Git is really good at dealing with scenarios
where not everyone is using Git.. so the
content-is-kind-and-metadata-be-damned pays off handsomely.

And the "scenarios where not everyone is using Git" are everytime that
we are tracking a project that uses a different SCM. For me, the
"killer-app" of git is that, as it does not rely on magic metadata, it
is perfectly useful on projects that I track that use CVS or SVN.

I submit or commit patches upstream and git spots the commits being
echoed back in just right because it does not rely on the metadata.
Only on the content.

cheers,


martin