On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 06:41:42PM -0700, Bill Shannon wrote:
> >>I think of hg commit as equivalent to sccs delget.
> >
> >
> >You need to significantly revise this thought :)
> 
> Why?

Because they're completely non-equivalent. :)
sccs delget adds one delta to one file.
hg commit commits a changeset to a whole series of files.

if anything, hg commit is more akin to a putback.

> >>I'm not so much trying to argue about which is "right" or "wrong".
> >>I'm mostly pointing out that this is different, and to better support
> >>our people and our processes it would be good if there were fewer
> >>differences.
> >
> >
> >Certainly. A number of these differences, IMO, need to belong in 'wx', 
> >though,
> >since they can be quite specific to the way we choose to do things rather 
> >than
> >generally useful... others might make sense in hg itself, or mq, or an
> >extension, etc.
> 
> Remember that there are other Sun people using Teamware, who aren't
> using the other Solaris customizations like wx.  We need to help them
> as well.

And there are other non-Sun people (like the developers of Mercurial)
who are using and developing Mercurial who don't need the baggage of
Teamware transition aids polluting their tool.  

If you are proposing a fork of Mercurial, then... well that's a whole
different argument.

cheers,
steve
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