From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: base Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:35:12 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20100822120642.GA1794@muc.de> <87bp8uzu9d.fsf@mithlond.arda> <871v9o7dmf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87wrrg5rzg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87r5ho5gyr.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87hbij6hib.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k4nf7ezq.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <878w3v7dd2.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83wrrfmljv.fsf@gnu.org> <87d3t75crc.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282728956 10986 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2010 09:35:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:35:56 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 25 11:35:45 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OoCOX-0000eb-81 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:35:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59928 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OoCOU-0004HX-4C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:35:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57817 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OoCOH-0004HP-IM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:35:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OoCOG-0000ck-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:35:29 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:38184) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OoCOF-0000cZ-R8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:35:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OoCOE-0000Pj-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:35:26 +0200 Original-Received: from cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com ([92.232.137.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:35:26 +0200 Original-Received: from u.s.reddy by cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:35:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: <87d3t75crc.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129198 Archived-At: On 8/25/2010 9:15 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > And it shows up in the bugs and problems that are posted to the bazaar > list. Eg, I have never seen a wedged git or hg repository or branch; > it is *always* possible to get back to where you started from (unless > the content storage itself is corrupted). The worst that can ever > happen (unless you explicitly type "git commit" to make the mess > permanent) is that you've wasted hours trying to resolve an insane > merge conflict. But people post regularly (recently, I'd say about > once a month) asking how to get some previous version (in some cases, > any version at all) checked out of their bzr branch. And in some > cases the answers are very non-trivial (writing a plugin for bzr that > replaces buggy functionality, for example). > > These are bugs, of course, but they're unimaginable in git or hg, > because the history data is wedged, not the content storage. With the > history data used by git, at least, wedging the history would be as > criminal as wedging a list in Emacs LISP would be. But wedged history > *is* occasionally reported for bazaar. Gosh, I don't know what you mean by "wedged". Stuck? Corrupted? Doing a Google search took me to this page http://ww2.samhart.com/node/47 where git is being blamed as being the worst culprit in this regard. Uday