From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: git and time Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:01:23 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <20060927002745.15344.qmail@web51005.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 03 02:01:56 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 1GUXjD-0004l7-RN for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:01:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965533AbWJCAB2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 20:01:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965535AbWJCAB2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 20:01:28 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:44181 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965533AbWJCAB2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2006 20:01:28 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GUXil-0004fI-SN for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:01:16 +0200 Received: from host-81-190-17-45.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.17.45]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:01:15 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-17-45.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:01:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-17-45.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds wrote: > Now, in some sense, you can ignore the difference between the two models, > since you'd think that they are totally equivalent: from the git model, > you can always get the "changeset" by just diffing the current state with > the previous state, and conversely from the "changeset" model you can > always get the "current state" by just applying the changeset to the > previous state. And if I understand correctly, that is how StGit and pg (Patchy Git), which are patch management applications similar in the purpose to the Quilt, and are based on Git, works. http://wiki.procode.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/StGITtheory -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git