From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:05:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <9e4733910610140807p633f5660q49dd2d2111c9f5fe@mail.gmail.com> <45357411.20500@utoronto.ca> <200610180246.18758.jnareb@gmail.com> <45357CC3.4040507@utoronto.ca> <4536EC93.9050305@utoronto.ca> <87lkncev90.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <453792A8.1010700@utoronto.ca> <878xjc2qeb.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <453803E6.2060309@utoronto.ca> <87ods727pn.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <45382120.9060702@utoronto.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Andreas Ericsson , Carl Worth , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Narebski X-From: bazaar-ng-bounces@lists.canonical.com Fri Oct 20 07:05:26 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvbg-bazaar-ng@m.gmane.org Received: from esperanza.ubuntu.com ([82.211.81.173]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GamZP-0003EZ-CE for gcvbg-bazaar-ng@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:05:23 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=esperanza.ubuntu.com) by esperanza.ubuntu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GamZG-0000G1-3f; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 06:05:14 +0100 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]) by esperanza.ubuntu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GamZB-0000Fu-QV for bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com; Fri, 20 Oct 2006 06:05:10 +0100 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k9K551aX020824 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:05:02 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k9K550jM007477; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:05:01 -0700 To: Aaron Bentley In-Reply-To: <45382120.9060702@utoronto.ca> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.471 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.95__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.155 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 X-BeenThere: bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 Precedence: list List-Id: bazaar-ng discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: bazaar-ng-bounces@lists.canonical.com Errors-To: bazaar-ng-bounces@lists.canonical.com Archived-At: On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Aaron Bentley wrote: > > I understand your argument now. It's nothing to do with numbers per se, > and all about per-branch namespaces. Correct? I don't know if that is what Carl's problem is, but yes, to somebody from the git world, it's totally insane to have the _same_ commit have ten different names just depending on which branch is was in. In git-land, the name of a commit is the same in every branch. Do you have something like gitk --all in your graphical viewers? That one shows _all_ the branches of a repository, and how they relate to each other in git. How do you name your commits in such a viewer, since every branch has a _different_ name for the same commit? Linus