From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: Mercurial's only true "plugin" extension: inotify... and can it be done in Git? Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:20:41 +0100 Message-ID: <47D65CF9.60607@op5.se> References: <200803091459.21354.jnareb@gmail.com> <200803101938.09300.jnareb@gmail.com> <47D6541F.8000503@op5.se> <7vtzjdbngf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org, mercurial@selenic.com To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 11 11:22:11 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZ1cR-0004sf-Lh for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:22:04 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757060AbYCKKUq (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:20:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756316AbYCKKUq (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:20:46 -0400 Received: from mail.op5.se ([193.201.96.20]:52589 "EHLO mail.op5.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753361AbYCKKUp (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:20:45 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 339C91F080C2; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:21:37 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.399 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.399 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from mail.op5.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.op5.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id vc-PPY-G6toh; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:21:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from clix.int.op5.se (unknown [192.168.1.27]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B061F080BE; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:21:36 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) In-Reply-To: <7vtzjdbngf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Andreas Ericsson writes: > >> Jakub Narebski wrote: >>> Mercurial extension | git equivalent (or proposal) >>> --------------------+------------------------------------ >>> bisect | git-bisect >>> >>> Footnotes: >>> ========== >>> (*) Directly inspired by git feature >>> (!) No direct equivalent, would be quite a work to add >>> (!!!) No equivalent, don't know if possible >>> >> IIRC, bisect should have a star here (or five, as it's a killer feature). > > Heh, why do we even care? It is a norm that good features cross pollinate > across systems and who borrows ideas from whom does not really matter > much. Because companies such as the one where I work pride themselves in using the most innovative tools. Clearly, git is the most innovative tool here, since its developers managed to cook up something so immensely useful as "git bisect" (which by the way is well-nigh single-handedly responsible for reducing our average bugreport-to-fix time from 4 days to 6 hours). -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231