Re: VCS comparison table

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Dnia wtorek 17. października 2006 06:56, Aaron Bentley napisał:
> Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > Well, <ref>~<n> means <n>-th _parent_ of a given ref, which for branches
> > (which constantly change) is a moving target.
> 
> Ah.  Bazaar uses negative numbers to refer to <n>th parents, and
> positive numbers to refer to the number of commits that have been made
> since the branch was initialized.
> 
> > One cannot have universally valid revision numbers (even
> > only per branch) in distributed development. Subversion can do that only
> > because it is centralized SCM. Global numbering and distributed nature
> > doesn't mix... hence contents based sha1 as commit identifiers.
> 
> Sure.  Our UI approach is that unique identifiers can usefully be
> abstracted away with a combination of URL + number, in the vast majority
> of cases.
> 
> > But this doesn't matter much, because you can have really lightweight
> > tags in git (especially now with packed refs support). So you can have
> > the namespace you want.
> 
> The nice thing about revision numbers is that they're implicit-- no one
> needs to take any action to update them, and so you can always use them.
> 
> > I wonder if any SCM other than git has easy way to "rebase" a branch,
> > i.e. cut branch at branching point, and transplant it to the tip
> > of other branch. For example you work on 'xx/topic' topic branch,
> > and want to have changes in those branch but applied to current work,
> > not to the version some time ago when you have started working on
> > said feature.
> 
> If I understand correctly, in Bazaar, you'd just merge the current work
> into 'xx/topic'.
> 
> > What your comparison matrick lacks for example is if given SCM
> > saves information about branching point and merges, so you can
> > get where two branches diverged, and when one branch was merged into
> > another.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean about divergence.  For example, Bazaar
> records the complete ancestry of each branch, and determining the point
> of divergence is as simple as finding the last common ancestor.  But are
> you considering only the initial divergence?  Or if the branches merge
> and then diverge again, would you consider that the point of divergence?
> 
> merge-point tracking is a prerequisite for Smart Merge, which does
> appear on our matrix.
> 
> > Plugins = API + detection ifrastructure + loading on demand.
> > Git has API, has a kind of detection ifrastructure (for commands and
> > merge strategies only), doesn't have loading on demand. You can
> > easily provide new commands (thanks to git wrapper) and new merge
> > strategies.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by API, unless you mean the commandline.  If
> that's what you mean, surely all unix commands are extensible in that
> regard.
> 
> Aaron
> 

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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