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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-27 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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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