Re: VCS comparison table

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:05:41 -0400
Aaron Bentley [off-list ref] wrote:

No, you don't.  They may have each pulled from a different repository.

Take revision 00aabbcc, created by Linus.  Linus has it because he
committed it.  I have it because I pulled Linus' repository.  You have
it because Andrew Morton pulled Linus' repository, and you pulled Andrew
Morton's repository.

Well his point was that they have pulled from each other directly or
indirectly.  You can safely say that rev 00aabbcc.. in _any_ repository
is the same rev.  This discussion started because of doubt expressed
by some here on the list that the "simple" numbering scheme used by
bzr can offer the same guarantee.  That is, rev 1.2.1 may be completely
different commits in different repos in bazaar.
 

With most SCMs that store the repository in the root of the tree,
disentangling the tree and repository requires care.  OTOH, this is just
as easy with Arch, CVS and SVN as it is with Bazaar.

Just in case it wasn't clear, this is drop dead easy in Git too.

No, I *want* the working tree files.  I run bzr from a checkout of bzr.dev.

Why?  Uncommitted changes shouldn't be propagated.  Once you have cloned
the repo, you can checkout your own copy of the working tree files.

Sean