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From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
To: newsgroups@catchall.shelter13.net
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Deciding between Git/Mercurial
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:55:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC1691D.5050600@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h9nlhj$heq$1@ger.gmane.org>

On 09/27/2009 02:24 PM, Anteru wrote:
> What's
> the rationale behind this decision for git, and is it possible to
> emulate Mercurial's behavior somehow?

While not exactly the same thing, 'git describe' is very helpful in 
comparing versions (if you know that one is an ancestor of the other).

Paolo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-29  1:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-27 12:24 Deciding between Git/Mercurial Anteru
2009-09-27 18:01 ` Robin Rosenberg
2009-09-27 18:10   ` Anteru
2009-09-27 18:44     ` Alex Riesen
2009-09-27 18:51       ` Mark Struberg
2009-09-27 19:18         ` Anteru
2009-09-27 19:31           ` Alex Riesen
2009-09-27 19:34           ` Erik Faye-Lund
2009-09-27 18:55     ` Pascal Obry
2009-10-22  8:01   ` Martin Langhoff
2009-09-28  8:36 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-28  8:42   ` Matthieu Moy
2009-09-28 10:08   ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-09-28 11:01     ` Felipe Contreras
2009-09-28 11:17       ` Bruce Stephens
2009-09-30 11:14     ` Matthias Andree
2009-09-28 11:32 ` Dilip M
2009-09-28 20:54 ` Damien Wyart
2009-09-28 21:09   ` Steven Noonan
2009-09-28 21:33     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-28 23:56       ` Randal L. Schwartz
2009-09-29  0:01         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-29  7:44         ` Mike Ralphson
2009-09-29  8:21       ` Matthieu Moy
2009-09-29  8:22         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-09-28 23:11 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-29  0:32   ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-29  6:32   ` Anteru
2009-09-29 18:44   ` Leo Razoumov
2009-09-29 18:58     ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-29 19:55       ` Matthieu Moy
2009-09-30  0:49       ` Leo Razoumov
2009-09-30  6:28         ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-09-30  9:17         ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-09-30 11:09         ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-29  1:55 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2009-09-29  8:44 ` Daniele Segato
2009-09-29  8:54   ` Dilip M
2009-09-30 11:09 ` Matthias Andree
2009-09-30 22:05   ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-10-22  2:38 ` Dilip M
2009-10-22  6:50   ` Anteru
2009-10-22  7:12     ` Dilip M
2009-10-22  7:35       ` Anteru

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