On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: > When reading "Distributed Revision Control with Mercurial" to > see how Mercurial differs from Git, in the chapter 14 "Adding > functionality with extensions" there is description > (in section 14.1) of one interesting extension, > namely 'inotify' extension. By the way, when browsing list of available Mercurial extensions http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/UsingExtensions inotify extension was single extension which doesn't have less or more direct equivalent in Git, or cannot be easy done in Git. See the table below for details: Mercurial extension | git equivalent (or proposal) --------------------+------------------------------------ acl | update-paranoid contrib hook alias | alias.<cmd> config bisect | git-bisect bugzilla | possible as hook children | possible command, cf. git-name-rev convert (!) | <possible, would be nice to have> extdiff | diff.external / GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF fetch | git-pull (sic!) gpg | signed tags graphlog | <possible, see: tig, git-forest> hgk (*) | gitk imerge | see git-mergetool keyword expansion | check possible gitattributes mq | Guilt, StGit notify | post-receive-mail contrib hook, | default update hook graphviz | <can be done> send | <possible, wrapper around git-bundle> rdiff (!) | <a trick for local repo in GitTips> localbranch (*) | git-branch, git-checkout parentRevspec (*) | rev^, rev^1 or rev^2, rev~n patchbomb | git-send-email record | git add -i, git commit -i transplant | git-rebase win32ext | core.autocrlf config churn | see git-shortlog purge | git-clean cvscommit | see git-cvsexportcommit, git-cvsserver config | compare git-config digest | see git-ls-remote for bundle diffstat | git diff --diffstat, default for git-pull easy* | see tig forest | git-submodule hgcia | CIA hook mentioned on GitWiki inotify (!!!) | Footnotes: ========== (*) Directly inspired by git feature (!) No direct equivalent, would be quite a work to add (!!!) No equivalent, don't know if possible -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- 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
