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From: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
To: "Dan Chokola" <dan@chokola.com>
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Bu Bacoo" <bubacoo@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Darcs
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:00:48 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46a038f90706261700g7b1791d7r5413d0b289421122@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61e816970706242144y5dd07464ue6b06478a5920699@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/25/07, Dan Chokola <dan@chokola.com> wrote:
> So, relating back to the original post, and extending on Linus'
> 'academic' analogy, Darcs is like a thesis project from university
> that proves how DSCM can be done scientifically. Git is grown-up Darcs
> that proves how DSCM can be done practically.

I don't think it's like that. More like

 - BK showed it's done
 - Darcs picked some good bits from BK (while no other foss dscm did
until git/hg/bzr came along) but got distracted with interesting but
not-that-useful stuff - see patch algebra.

cheers,


m

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-27  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-24  5:32 Darcs Bu Bacoo
2007-06-24 17:59 ` Darcs Linus Torvalds
2007-06-24 20:45   ` Darcs Martin Langhoff
2007-06-24 21:19     ` Darcs Jan Hudec
2007-06-24 21:52     ` Darcs Theodore Tso
2007-06-24 22:22     ` Darcs Junio C Hamano
     [not found]       ` <61e816970706241638j60830741p2cd1a102a72ae226@mail.gmail.com>
2007-06-24 23:40         ` Darcs Dan Chokola
2007-06-25  0:00         ` Darcs Linus Torvalds
2007-06-25  4:44           ` Darcs Dan Chokola
2007-06-27  0:00             ` Martin Langhoff [this message]
2007-06-24 23:21     ` Darcs Linus Torvalds
2007-06-28  1:26   ` Darcs Josh Triplett
2007-06-28 13:02     ` Darcs Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-29  7:13     ` Darcs Bu Bacoo
2007-06-25 11:36 ` Darcs Florian Weimer
2007-06-25 16:54   ` Darcs Bu Bacoo

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