From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:58:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: 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=US-ASCII Cc: Matthieu Moy , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, Sean , Jan Hudec , git@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Narebski X-From: bazaar-ng-bounces@lists.canonical.com Sun Oct 22 01:59:24 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 1GbQkK-0004kG-51 for gcvbg-bazaar-ng@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:59:20 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=esperanza.ubuntu.com) by esperanza.ubuntu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GbQk9-0000ki-AI; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:59:09 +0100 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]) by esperanza.ubuntu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GbQk7-0000kd-Kk for bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:59:08 +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 k9LNwvaX017597 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:58:58 -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 k9LNwuQ2004898; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:58:56 -0700 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_B=E5gfors?= In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.48 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 Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > And that work-flow is definitely not "distributed" it's much closer to > "disconnected centralized". Side note: the only reason I think that distinction is worth making at all is when comparing git to bzr, and even then this is a fairly subtle distinction, and probably not a huge deal in practice. I obviously think git is a nicer distributed design, but in the end, if you compare to something like CVS or SVN that isn't even disconnected, the difference between git and bzr in this sense is basically zero. So I sound like I care, but at the same time, I realize very well that when coming from a totally centralized world, the details we're arguing are _so_ not important. Linus