Re: VCS comparison table

Thanks for this mail, this makes me happy to see. The tools are pretty
much the same but have some different view on how to do things..

On 10/22/06, Carl Worth [off-list ref] wrote:

        git log --no-merges mainline..featureA

The mainline..featureA syntax literally just means:

        the set of commits that are reachable by featureA
        and excluding the set of commits reachable by mainline

It's an extraordinarily powerful thing to say, and its exactly what
you want here. And it's more than a "show mainline" thing, since
theses sets of commits can consist of arbitrarily complex DAG
subsets. This syntax is just a really useful way to slice up the DAG.

And this syntax is almost universally accepted by git commands. so you
can visualize a chunk of the DAG with:

        gitk mainline..featureA

Or export it as patches with:

        git format-patch mainline..featureA

I haven't been able to find something similar in bzr yet. Does it
exist?

If I understand you correctly, you'll get the same thing with "bzr missing".

$ bzr missing ../mainline/
You have 1 extra revision(s):
------------------------------------------------------------
revno: 2
committer: Erik Bågfors [off-list ref]
branch nick: newbranch
timestamp: Sun 2006-10-22 16:43:10 +0200
message:
  hepp


You are missing 1 revision(s):
------------------------------------------------------------
revno: 2
committer: Erik Bågfors [off-list ref]
branch nick: mainline
timestamp: Sun 2006-10-22 16:42:53 +0200
message:
  hej

You can also run "bzr missing" with "--theirs-only" or "--mine-only"
to get only one way.

To get the patches you can run "bzr bundle ../mainline", but then
we're back to the discussion that it currently gives a "big patch" for
viewing, but when you merge it, you get each revision separately.

/Erik