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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Maintainership, and whiners...


From: John Arbash Meinel
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Maintainership, and whiners...
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:24:42 -0500
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Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On 10/13/05, David Allouche <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 18:07 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>>
>>>Strange. Are you unhappy with the "new generation" SCMs that came
>>>forward in the time around the bitkeeper fiasco or soon after? Why?
>>>I'm personally really impressed with git/cogito and mercurial. Darcs
>>>and BazaarNG are also interesting, but as I've been burned with
>>>patch-tracking SCMs...
>>
>>There seems to be a misconception here.
>>
>>BazaarNG is much closer to Mercurial than to Darcs. Actually,
>>model-wise, BazaarNG and Mercurial are pretty much exchangeable. I
>>suspect the (publicly conducted) BazaarNG design phase was quite
>>influential to Mercurial.
> 
> 
> Well, I followed Martin Poole's work on BazaarNG up until the point
> where git saw its first few releases, and BazaarNG was definitely
> patch-oriented back then. And Mercurial was tracking each and every
> move of git but in Python.
> 
> Next time I look at BazaarNG, there's all this love of tracking file
> identities, and I can't fathom where it came from ;-)
> 
> Anyway... I'm sure there's been heaps of cross pollination, and I'm
> don't necesarily know what influenced who and when. But one thing I'm
> sure: BazaarNG started off tracking patches, following perhaps the
> steps tla/baz and darcs.

It was pretty heavily influenced by tla/baz in the early days. However,
it certainly switched into doing snapshots.

John
=:->

> 
> cheers,
> 
> 
> martin

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