Am 28.01.2011 12:30, schrieb Russel Winder:
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 13:33 -0800, Bill Baxter wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky<a@a.a> wrote:
[ . . . ]
Yea, and that's pretty much the original thing I was saying: It's nice that
Hg seems to have it, but Git doesn't appear to be particularly interested in
it.
I think it's very handy for all the reasons you said. I don't think
I've every had to use a big hex string when dealing with mercurial.
Maybe once or twice max. Most of the stuff you do with repo history
as an individual developer is all about the local copy of the tree on
your system. Globally unique identifiers aren't needed for that. It
looks like Bzr does something similar. Not sure why Git hasn't gotten
this particular nicety.
Bazaar does indeed have revision numbers per branch. Note that branch
and repository is a different concept in Bazaar, unlike Git and
Mercurial where they are fundamentally the same.
I don't know Git but in Mercurial speech a branch is what you get when
using the 'hg branch' command. It's like a tag but a commit can only
belongs to exactly one branch ('default' is the default branch). All
commits to all branches are put together in one repository.
Mafi
