From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dhruva Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Bazaar repository Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:26:04 +0530 Message-ID: References: <87skyvse7k.fsf@xmission.com> <86ejae96t4.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205499380 27251 80.91.229.12 (14 Mar 2008 12:56:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:56:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Matthieu Moy , bazaar@lists.canonical.com To: "Eli Zaretskii" Original-X-From: bazaar-bounces@lists.canonical.com Fri Mar 14 13:56:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvbg-bazaar-ng@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from chlorine.canonical.com ([91.189.94.204]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ja9So-00040g-Mk for gcvbg-bazaar-ng@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:56:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=chlorine.canonical.com) by chlorine.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ja9SD-0001uW-KF; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:56:09 +0000 Original-Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.184]) by chlorine.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ja9SB-0001tQ-1r for bazaar@lists.canonical.com; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:56:07 +0000 Original-Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id j2so1618505tid.4 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:56:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.110.20.17 with SMTP id 17mr3401971tit.45.1205499364908; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:56:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.110.3.13 with HTTP; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:56:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: bazaar@lists.canonical.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 Precedence: list List-Id: bazaar discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bazaar-bounces@lists.canonical.com Errors-To: bazaar-bounces@lists.canonical.com Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general:38558 gmane.emacs.devel:92538 Archived-At: Hi, On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Incidentally, why are we concentrating on "bzr log"? is that a > frequent operation? With CVS, I find myself doing "cvs log" only once > in a few months, when I'm looking for a change corresponding to some > ChangeLog entry. Since I did the original posting with 'bzr log', I will post my reason. I have been using Git which supports multiple branches in the same folder. At times, I just want to make sure if I have all the latest changes pulled in. Ideally, a pull would have done its job, just that I try to make sure. I do that with a 'git log -l 10'. Since there are so many branches, at times I would like to know the activity and try building the one which has the most recent modification. I agree that it is not the most important feature but a required feature. Having tried a bunch of SCM, I must say GIT way of supporting multiple branches under the same folder along with its speed it a sure winner. I was opposing GIT due to its non-availability on M$, it is history now and the port they have is really good. The build is streamlined on M$ too, I pull their changes regularly, build, install and use the bleeding edge. It has not failed me so far. If Mercurial had the ability to truly support multiple branches in the same folder (with out requiring me to merge all branches before I can pull - pull works only if there is a single tip/branch), I would have preferred it mainly because it just needs PYTHON and nothing else (GIT needs PERL and SHELL). Speed wise, I find both GIT and Mercurial very close to each other. GIT may be faster but not noticeable to human perceptions (well on emacs repository I have tried). Here, I give GIT a thumbs up because it has data for all branches and still the fastest. If mercurial decides to support multiple branches under the same folder, I wonder what impact it might have on the speed. -dhruva