Re: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers

Dear diary, on Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 05:10:47PM CEST, I got a letter
where Andrew Thompson [off-list ref] told me that...

Petr Baudis wrote:

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Mercurial's undo is taking a snapshot of all the changed file's repo file 
length
at every commit or pull.  It just truncate the file to original size and 
undo is done.

"Trunactes"? That sounds very wrong... you mean replace with old
version? Anyway, what if the file has same length? It just doesn't make
much sense to me.

I believe this works because the files stored in a binary format that 
appends new changesets onto the end. Thus, truncating the new stuff from 
the end effectively removes the commit.

Yes, I'm sorry - I missed the "repo" part and thought that was what it
was doing with the checked out files. ;-)

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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