Some development statistics for 6.2

Posted Feb 22, 2023 11:15 UTC (Wed) by jonas.bonn (subscriber, #47561)
In reply to: Some development statistics for 6.2 by jtepe
Parent article: Some development statistics for 6.2

A commit is the application of a changeset to branch's linear history. A changeset can be committed to several different branches/repos. Given that this article refers to the main branch of Linus' repo, in this case there's a one-to-one relationship between a commit and a changeset, but in general I'd say developers create changesets and maintainers create commits thereof.

Some development statistics for 6.2

Posted Feb 28, 2023 19:18 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Hm. gitglossary(7) says:

> BitKeeper/cvsps speak for "commit". Since Git does not store changes, but states, it really does not make sense to use the term "changesets" with Git.

(I wonder if the persistence of the term here is just because Jon spent so much time reporting on Linux in the almost-forgotten BitKeeper days. On the other hand, in one month git will be old enough to vote...)