Nathaniel Smith wrote: > Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley <at> utoronto.ca> writes: > >> Bazaar also supports multiple unrelated branches in a repository, as >> does CVS, SVN (depending how you squint), Arch, and probably Monotone. > > It's quite common in Monotone. You could probably do it in Mercurial as well, > though I don't know that anyone does. SVK definitely does it (since each user > has a single repo that's shared by all the projects they work on). I think that GIT separation of root, repository, and branches namespaces is why there are so many calls for adding subproject support to GIT; people want to change to GIT literally, for example putting everything in one large repository. In GIT there is no concept of root, like in CVS or SVN. You can put repository anywhere. By default GIT looks for repository in current directory or one of its parents; otherwise you have to provide location of repository either by using GIT_DIR environment variable, or by using --git-dir option to git wrapper. And the branch namespace is totally separate. There are some restrictions on branch names (caused by notation GIT uses, for example <branch>^ means [first] parent of commit given by <branch>), but really few. Branch names can be hierarchical, like "jc/diff". So there is no "store everything in URL/path" of /root/repo/branch notation in GIT. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html