Re: VCS comparison table

Dear diary, on Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 01:27:59PM CEST, I got a letter
where Karl Hasselström [off-list ref] said that...

Really, every commit. Not even the initial commit of a project is
special -- it's just a commit with an empty parent set. And, it's
perfectly possible to make a (merge) commit whose parents belong to
previously disconnected parts of the DAG. This of course means that
it's not even possible to differentiate commits based on which project
they're part of, since one can create a commit whose parents belong to
different projects.

FWIW, IIRC the Git project has about 6 initial commits. :-)

BTW, a popular source of horrification in other VCSes are Git's octopus
merges. (A popular source of horrification in Git are kernel developers
doing octopus merges of 40 branches at once.) Does Bazaar support those?
(I can't really say it's a defect if it doesn't...)

(An octopus merge is a merge of more than two branches at once, in a
single commit.)

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
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