From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:41:23 +0200 Message-ID: <453F5B73.2050504@op5.se> References: <20061022074513.GF29927@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <87zmbozau2.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <20061022185350.GW75501@over-yonder.net> <20061023222131.GB17019@over-yonder.net> <845b6e870610231614y681e64eu33bb0806f530c742@mail.gmail.com> <20061024002657.GD17019@over-yonder.net> <87y7r6zgic.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <845b6e870610241451x578efe9n77017f3a9404e81c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:41:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Carl Worth , "Matthew D. Fuller" , Linus Torvalds , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Narebski Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) In-Reply-To: <845b6e870610241451x578efe9n77017f3a9404e81c@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gci4a-0005Gv-Qn for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:41:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964796AbWJYMl3 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:41:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964802AbWJYMl3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:41:29 -0400 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:58815 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964796AbWJYMl2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:41:28 -0400 Received: by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix, from userid 588) id 30D2F6BCDB; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:41:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.20] (unknown [213.88.215.14]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99FB96BD3B; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:41:23 +0200 (CEST) To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Erik_B=E5gfors?= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Erik B=E5gfors wrote: >=20 > Creates the picture you can see at > http://erik.bagfors.nu/bzr-plugins/dotrepo.png >=20 Looking at this picture, I found a very annoying thing with bzr's=20 revids: For commits from the same author on the same day, they don't=20 differ in the beginning, making all of them, at a glance, look the same= =2E=20 I got a headache just trying to figure out how to read them. It might b= e=20 worth looking into in the future, especially if you decide to show them= =20 to the users. Perhaps it's just my git eyes being used to seeing the first 4 chars=20 (which is all I normally look at) being different for each different=20 commit, but having to look up the near-end of the string to find the=20 actual difference in bzr's revids was actually a quite painful experien= ce. --=20 Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se