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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: newsgroups@catchall.shelter13.net, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Deciding between Git/Mercurial
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:42:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpq7hvjfojb.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530909280136s1ff65004q1733bd4ef78bdc07@mail.gmail.com> (Felipe Contreras's message of "Mon\, 28 Sep 2009 11\:36\:49 +0300")

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> IMO the key difference between hg and git is the storage model: hg
> stores deltas, while git stores snapshots.

Mercurial stores regular snapshots, to make sure you never have to
apply too many deltas to get a snapshot. That's not so different from
what Git does with its packed format (the difference is that Git's
delta are not necessarily against the direct ancestor of the file).

AFAICT, both are snapshot-oriented, but both use a compression
algorithm based on delta.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-28  8:43 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 [this message]
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
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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