From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charles Duffy Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:04:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: <9e4733910610140807p633f5660q49dd2d2111c9f5fe@mail.gmail.com> <45349162.90001@op5.se> <453536AE.6060601@utoronto.ca> <200610172301.27101.jnareb@gmail.com> <45354AD0.1020107@utoronto.ca> <45355CBB.80108@utoronto.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: bazaar-ng-bounces@lists.canonical.com Wed Oct 18 23:10:40 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 1GaIgD-0004c0-8x for gcvbg-bazaar-ng@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:10:25 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=esperanza.ubuntu.com) by esperanza.ubuntu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GaIfw-000327-V7; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:10:09 +0100 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by esperanza.ubuntu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GaIfs-00031H-Cv for bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:10:05 +0100 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GaIfq-0004Wf-5q for bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:10:02 +0200 Received: from 64.128.31.220 ([64.128.31.220]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:10:02 +0200 Received: from cduffy by 64.128.31.220 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:10:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.128.31.220 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) In-Reply-To: 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: Sean wrote: > Hmm.. It's pretty easy to test out Git ideas too. People do it all > the time, and without plugins. Junio maintains several such trees > for instance. Dunno.. I just think plugs _sounds_ good to developers > without much real benefit to users over regular ole source code. Example time! There's a plugin for Bzr which adds support for Cygwin-compatible symlink support on Windows. (IIRC, this involves monkey-patching some of the Python standard library bits). Now, this is something which is *proposed* as a feature to be merged into upstream bzr, and it may happen at some point. That said, when I have a Windows-using coworker who wants to check out a repository that has symlinks in it (with his win32-native, no-cygwin-required bzr upstream binary), I don't need to tell him to go download and build bzr from a third party; instead, I just need to tell him to run a single command to check out the plugin in question into the bzr plugins folder. From an end-user convenience perspective, it's a pretty significant win.