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Emacs chooses Bazaar

Emacs chooses Bazaar

Posted Mar 14, 2008 1:44 UTC (Fri) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
In reply to: Emacs chooses Bazaar by hmh
Parent article: Emacs chooses Bazaar

For me, anyway, the size and speed of git makes it practical to use for stuff that I would not have had under revision control, such as small web projects and article notes. I also have "etckeeper" by Joey Hess installed on a new machine, to keep /etc in git. (I should write something about this one -- it's hooked into apt so you get a commit of config file changes that happen on package install. Very nifty and potentially work-saving, though I haven't been running it very long and haven't rolled anything back.) So it's natural for me not to have to learn two DVCSs thoroughly, and use git for larger-scale projects too.


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Emacs chooses Bazaar

Posted Mar 14, 2008 3:34 UTC (Fri) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link]

>For me, anyway, the size and speed of git makes it practical to use for stuff that I would
not have had under revision control, such as small web projects and article notes.

I don't understand what you mean here.  Small projects are exactly those where all VCSes can
perform all operations instantaneously; git's optimizations are all about scaling up?

Emacs chooses Bazaar

Posted Mar 14, 2008 3:58 UTC (Fri) by MarkWilliamson (subscriber, #30166) [Link]

I don't know what the OP meant to say, but to me the modern DVCS systems 
seem much more practical for keeping small, simple projects in than, say, 
CVS or SVN.  They keep all the repository state in a single directory, 
within your working tree; there's no separate repository.  In this 
respect it's rather like using RCS (except better!), which always used to 
be my solution to revision controlling single files / small groups of 
files.

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