From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_B=E5gfors?=" Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:19:54 +0200 Message-ID: <845b6e870610210919i6d086654g3881343e6a3c9f84@mail.gmail.com> References: <9e4733910610140807p633f5660q49dd2d2111c9f5fe@mail.gmail.com> <45345AEF.6070107@utoronto.ca> <200610171030.35854.jnareb@gmail.com> <20061017073839.3728d1e7.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> <20061021141328.GE29843@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Jan Hudec" , "Linus Torvalds" , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org, "Matthieu Moy" , "Jakub Narebski" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Oct 21 18:29:43 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 1GbJjC-0001Ww-C0 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:29:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423355AbWJUQ30 (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:29:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423359AbWJUQ30 (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:29:26 -0400 Received: from zeus2.kernel.org ([204.152.191.36]:21951 "EHLO zeus2.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423358AbWJUQ3Z (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:29:25 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.182]) by zeus2.kernel.org (8.13.7/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k9LGTAr7011657 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:29:23 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id z74so41927pyg for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:27:02 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=I2V6J3d2L7xAq50TjRyQrDDNwshDrcwZWiBq26q8XIIvtxT9tQNZCxD/PMhZtw14O0SOPBTqHMcObUcfMjYHEbXTM1TzsjxAf9/AjizwYZnek7kzyg6eAFg43bxST6KGosN8qqZbeh6BC5WJCEuBQTTyGjGouusmQJ+ne5paqFY= Received: by 10.35.88.18 with SMTP id q18mr2979143pyl; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:19:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.116.4 with HTTP; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:19:54 -0700 (PDT) To: Sean In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.4/2061/Sat Oct 21 09:05:13 2006 on zeus2.kernel.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 10/21/06, Sean wrote: > On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:13:28 +0200 > Jan Hudec wrote: > > > Bzr is meant to be used in both ways, depending on user's choice. > > Therefore it comes with that infrastructure and you can choose whether > > you want to use it or not. > > From what we've read on this thread, bzr appears to be biased towards > working with a central repo. That is the model that supports the use of > revnos etc that the bzr folks are so fond of. However Git is perfectly > capable of being used in any number of models, including centralized. > Git just doesn't make the mistake of training new users into using > features that are only stable in a limited number of those models. This is just plain wrong. bzr is a fully decentralized VCS. I've read this thread for quite some time now and I really cannot understand why people come to this conclusion. However, if you do want to work centralized, bzr has commands that fits that workflow really good. /Erik -- google talk/jabber. zindar@gmail.com SIP-phones: sip:erik_bagfors@gizmoproject.com sip:17476714687@proxy01.sipphone.com