programming reddit: "Bazaar blows goats"

[Martin Pool]

2009/12/11 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>:
>  > There's also a comment explaining why Bazaar's handling of history as a
>  > mainline with branches is good. Is it by one of our regulars?
>
> Note that on the emacs-devel list there are a couple of vocal regulars
> pushing for a git-oriented view (and this matters, because it would be
> embedded in vc.el IIUC).  Specifically, this history
>
> 3.  merge "Fix a typo."
>    3.1 Fix a typo.
> 2.  Add a Feature.
>
> is being called evil.  Andreas sorta backtracked on that, but I think
> that's the way he really feels about it.

So 'git-oriented view' would mean log showing revisions in topo-sorted
date order without indenting?  That sounds entirely possible as an
option, and not hard to implement - and it would be faster to produce
too.  I don't think it would be a good default but you could make it a
personal default.

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>