On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 11:03:20AM -0700 I heard the voice of David Lang, and lo! it spake thus: > > it sounded like you were saying that the way to get the slices of > the DAG was to use branches in bzr. [...] I'm not entirely sure I understand what you mean here, but I think you're saying "Nobody's written the code in bzr to show arbitrary slices of the DAG", which is true TTBOMK. > everyone agrees that bzr supports the Star topology. Most people > (including bzr people) seem to agree that currently bzr does not > support the Distributed topology. I think this statement arouses so much grumbling because (a) bzr does support such a lot better than often seems implied, (b) where it doesn't, the changes needed to do so are relatively minor (often merely cosmetic), and (c) disagreement over whether some of the qualifications included for 'distributed' are really fundamental. > it's just fine for bzr to not support all possible topologies, I think there's a real intent for bzr TO support at least all common topologies. I'll buy that current development has focused more on [relatively] simple topologies than the more wildly complex ones. I look forward to more addressing of the less common cases as the tool matures, and I think a lot of this thread will be good material to work with as that happens. It's just the suggestion that providing fruit for simple topologies _necessarily_ prejudices against complex ones that I find so onerous. > (besides everyone understanding each other) That's a good enough reason for me. Before this thread, I wasn't interested in using git. I'm still not, but now I understand much better /why/ I'm not. And when (I'm sure it'll happen sooner or later) some project I follow picks up using git, I'll have enough grounding in the tool's mental model to work with it when I have to. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. - 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