Re: Fwd: Re: Revision control

2008-06-11 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Mittwoch 11 Juni 2008 03:56:06 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > That means, that the Mercurial people say, that history should be > > preserved in most cases, so it wasn't first priority. > > This is precisely the sort of policy decisions that the software should > not impose upon users. Git deci

Re: Fwd: Re: Revision control

2008-06-10 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 01:39:51AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Samstag 07 Juni 2008 18:19:29 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Err... Does that mean that Mercurial doesn't even offer rebase (and > > it can't be implemented trivially)?! > > That means, that the Mercurial people say,

Re: Fwd: Re: Revision control

2008-06-07 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Samstag 07 Juni 2008 18:19:29 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Err... Does that mean that Mercurial doesn't even offer rebase (and it > can't be implemented trivially)?! That means, that the Mercurial people say, that history should be preserved in most cases, so it wasn't first priority. It can

Re: Fwd: Re: Revision control

2008-06-07 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:38:53AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > I'm interested in how they are going to tackle that in the Summer of > Code project. > > I didn't find information about the way they want to do it in the > short description (and I don't have the time to investigate r

Fwd: Re: Revision control

2008-06-07 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Sorry, forgot to forward to the list... But while I'm at it: To me "pathological" doesn't mean bad, but simply "a very seldomly appearing case", as out maths profs use it - I just realized that the expression could be easily taken wrong. And: Many thanks for the info about changes in Linux! T

Fwd: Re: Revision control

2008-06-04 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Mittwoch 04 Juni 2008 07:33:10 schrieb Ivan Shmakov: > > Mercurial offers the same, for GNU/Linux and Windows. > > Indeed. > > I assume that it will break the hard link as soon as a change is > committed for the file? Yes (I just tested it). Result: As soon as you commit a