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Re: Bzr lightweight checkout, bzr shallow branches, and git



On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 12:47:45PM -0500, Guy Hulbert wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-03 at 17:37 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > As far as I know, Git doesn't have a mechanism to create full-fledged
> > repositories with only part of the history, referencing other remote
> > repositories for missing data. With my Git user hat on, this is clearly
> > a technically inferiority of Git vs Bazaar. 

> This was a design decision that Linus made right at the beginning.  In
> his opinion, it makes Git technically superior to Bazaar.  There is a
> google video available where he explains the design.

> Do you have a technical reference for Bazaar ... or even a rebuttal to
> Linus's claims ?

My rebuttal is that if git is technical superior to bazaar because bazaar
has a mechanism to create repositories with only partial history, then
bazaar is technically superior to git because git has rebasing as a
first-class feature.

:-)

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