From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Razoumov Subject: Re: Deciding between Git/Mercurial Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:44:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: SLONIK.AZ@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Anteru , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 29 20:46:03 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mshgt-0008KU-Nv for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:44:48 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752830AbZI2Soi (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:44:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752751AbZI2Soi (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:44:38 -0400 Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.27]:62121 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752302AbZI2Soi (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:44:38 -0400 Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 4so339957eyf.19 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:44:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=GoL5l2BxuUtnchUJM0aSDHvbhhwTFsfiO8H68ThVmfQ=; b=gbV+16a2hi0HWBEQn7c14JS5UyaW5uq2JQ88oQx2mLNOjgOmqCAf+DRhK5zbZGfthc EijrJVpczLZRgjXt9T+ayCP30Ot1VR3+lG3SOGHnDqk54j86At5LEGBycD9xbUNW6U8w kQsUJ/ytI/0Kr9xTPBXD9G/QyIIODgua3kEGA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=oTyVnefW+GhXNmTvMn0fEDO4QzR3xrd6AQe2bwP6Xu1JOgqrfTXSNKMSW+YKYU4RSB pbArNqSO4+POOOCjXL7iI2sJvrAVx1G7xakPjQoS5/ZPEJtDGi5VipT0NwbDwNx76akp zWo/wlIZS39/nyOAN1RKOfIVLw07amBad9JDo= Received: by 10.216.71.133 with SMTP id r5mr1179507wed.180.1254249880807; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:44:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 2009-09-28, Jakub Narebski wrote: > [..snip..] > Besides with nonlinear history with > revision numbers such as 12678 and 12687 you know that 12678 is older > than 12687 if and only if 12678 and 12687 are on the same line of > development. > The statement above is incorrect!! In a Mercurial repo local revision numbers are strictly ordered in commit time. 12678 < 12687 means that 12678 was committed prior to 12687. But these two commits could belong to two completely unrelated lines of development. --Leo--