Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 14:45:41 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: > Well, yes, but wasn't CVS, for instance, created for distributed code > collaboration, too? Or do I understand the word ``distributed'' > wrong?
The difference is that in CVS you have a reference server, so it's normally called "centralized", while in Git, Mercurial and Bazaaar every clone has the full history and you can synchronize with whomever you want - not only with the central server. > A very nice map of differences, thank you :-) I'll use this mail as a > kind of reference for the future, if you don't mind ;-) It's only a list of examples :) Here's a much nicer comparision, though a bit outdated (the comments bring it a bit up to date): - http://importantshock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/git-vs-mercurial/ "McGyver and James Bond" :) But I forgot two examples: - Mercurial: History is seldomly rewritten and mostly considered as fixed. - Git: History is rewritten often. - Mercurial: A tag is simply part of a changeset and thus versioned as everything else. - Git: A tag is set by an authoritative source and outside version control. > > This also means, that scripts should always use the long version, because > > extensions can add commands, so an abbreviation can become ambigous when > > you add an extension (everything has its downside :) ). > > Sounds complicated, but also like it shouldn't be extremely hard to > handle the problems once you know about them :-) It sort of automatically creates shorter aliases for you - saves keystrokes. And when you use an ambigous abbreviation, it tells you the ones from which would fit. For example for me, "hg ch" says the following: $ LANGUAGE=en hg ch hg: command 'ch' is ambiguous: checkout chist churn chist is from the cutehg extension (GUI in Qt) and churn is from the churn extension (statistics about committers). (LANGUAGE=en keeps it from answering in german :) ). Best wishes, Arne --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- - singing a part of the history of free software - http://infinite-hands.draketo.de
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