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From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc: mle+tools@mega-nerd.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Switch to GIT. Why?
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:10:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090427131059.GT3795@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090426.011320.1172763085.imp@bsdimp.com>

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 01:13:20AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> At the expense, at least with hg and git, that you can't do subtree
> checkouts.  You also lose the strict numbering that svn was giving us,
> since both git and hg compute a hash of the tree and use that as a
> revision number.  Usually this isn't a big deal, but something to be
> aware of if you used to checkout sub-trees to do bug bisection...

But of course that is part of why svn can't merge from one tree to
another without loosing the history and git can (and I suspect Hg can
as well).  So the strict numbering while it seems very useful, is actually
a problem in many cases.

-- 
Len Sorensen

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-27 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <A1B59730-636E-43B7-88AE-9C7057D41F17@hotmail.com>
2009-04-26  5:28 ` [Qemu-devel] Switch to GIT. Why? C.W. Betts
2009-04-26  5:52   ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2009-04-26  7:13     ` M. Warner Losh
2009-04-26  8:15       ` Ralf Baechle
2009-04-27 13:10       ` Lennart Sorensen [this message]
2009-04-27 13:54         ` M. Warner Losh
2009-04-27 14:22           ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-04-27 14:42             ` M. Warner Losh
2009-04-26  7:20   ` Andreas Färber

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