From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: schwab@linux-m68k.org
Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bzr's "confusion" between branches and repositories
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:15:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831tzt9wht.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8361p59xim.fsf@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:53:37 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> > Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:47:24 +0100
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >
> > > A bzr repository is just a convenience for storing several related
> > > branches in a way that saves disk storage, that's all.
> >
> > This is not true for most repositories. The branches are usually
> > connected together by having a common root.
>
> Yes, that's what I meant by "related". Sorry for being inaccurate.
Btw, it's possible to have branches without a common root (or any
common revisions) in a bzr repo, it just doesn't make sense, because
there will be no disk space savings.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-27 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-24 16:29 The git mirror is *very* badly screwed up Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-24 16:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-01-24 17:07 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-24 17:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-01-24 18:54 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-24 20:03 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-24 21:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-01-24 21:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-25 6:25 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-25 7:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-25 14:06 ` Goals for repo conversion day Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-25 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-25 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-25 16:01 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-25 16:15 ` Paul Eggert
2014-01-25 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-25 21:01 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-26 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-27 0:33 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-27 5:16 ` Werner LEMBERG
2014-01-27 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-27 17:42 ` Werner LEMBERG
2014-01-27 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-27 10:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-01-27 13:22 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-28 8:14 ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-28 8:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-01-28 9:07 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-28 15:40 ` What to do about the attic files Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-27 16:25 ` Goals for repo conversion day Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-27 16:28 ` Bzr's "confusion" between branches and repositories Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-27 16:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-01-27 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-27 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-01-25 19:32 ` Goals for repo conversion day Glenn Morris
2014-01-25 16:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-01-25 17:01 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-01-25 19:54 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-25 22:08 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-01-26 3:24 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-25 21:57 ` The git mirror is *very* badly screwed up Stefan Monnier
2014-01-25 23:27 ` Eric S. Raymond
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