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 18:35:18 +0200 Message-ID: <845b6e870610210935y2a97398enf18e17c41f123907@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> <845b6e870610210919i6d086654g3881343e6a3c9f84@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE 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 18:35:27 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 1GbJoj-0002Qj-Lw for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:35:26 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422724AbWJUQfX convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:35:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423357AbWJUQfW (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:35:22 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.177]:59498 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422724AbWJUQfW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:35:22 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id z74so43800pyg for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:35:18 -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=Y77qIAjuJePL1Bl2cN6IhM6qrVSYOgZhfmICWLmZFo8B32UgfQjpNoguqjEWGqjBXbFkE4QYzF95qnSF+fcHU2pXxeE/FJPSULPndfNDpLKlPx0DTkkSVySBGPDv/fGqCjLeAwTr/8bzsgHbVGeJdipbkrWY8+6AuTfkWfsR1lo= Received: by 10.35.49.15 with SMTP id b15mr3001058pyk; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:35:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.116.4 with HTTP; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:35:18 -0700 (PDT) To: Sean In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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 18:19:54 +0200 > "Erik B=E5gfors" wrote: > > > This is just plain wrong. > > > > bzr is a fully decentralized VCS. I've read this thread for quite s= ome > > 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. > > Have you been reading this thread at all? Yes. > Even the bzr people have now > stated rather firmly that the revno scheme doesn't work very well in > a number of situations. Numerous examples have been given where the > revno will be useless, or worse misleading when bzr is used without > a central server. The answer from the bzr folks has been then don't > use the revno in those situations. However, it's quite clear from th= e > bzr UI that there is a _bias_ towards using revno's. > > So yes, clearly you can use bzr without a central server; but it's ju= st > as clearly biased against such usage. So... I do agree that revnos might not fit perfectly in at all times. But that they automatically mean that bzr is not a decentralized VCS, I strongly disagree with. They are just one part of the equation. /Erik --=20 google talk/jabber. zindar@gmail.com SIP-phones: sip:erik_bagfors@gizmoproject.com sip:17476714687@proxy01.sipphone.com