From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bzr's "confusion" between branches and repositories
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:47:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y521z80z.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838uu19yo9.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:28:38 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Since you are saying this in quite a few of your blogs and articles,
> let's finish this once and for all: there is no confusion. Bazaar
> works on branches, period. Bazaar is deeply branch-centric, right
> down to the level of its DAG topology and the way it handles merges.
> 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. This is also the case of
the Emacs repository: *all* branches (except the old elpa branch) have a
single root in common.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-27 16:47 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 [this message]
2014-01-27 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-27 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
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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