[squeak-dev] Brave New World

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at angband.za.org
Mon Jan 25 10:43:01 UTC 2010


keith wrote:
>> BTW, now that we've agreed that it doesn't matter, do you concede the 
>> point that Monticello is substantially like git/mercurial/bazaar from 
>> a technical perspective, even if we're not using it in the way that 
>> the Mercurial folks advocate?  ;-)
> 
> No because if it were true, firstly Gofer would never have been developed.
> 
> We are not talking about the ability to work locally if you want to. We 
> are talking about having all of the history of (in my case) some 60+ 
> packages from different sources, locally, and providing a non-manual 
> resync back to base when you get back on line again.
> 
> You can use "MC1.5's copy all (forked)", to grab the whole history of a 
> package and keep it locally. if you want to, but that isnt really how 
> the tool is designed to be used.


Keith's right: a single MCD file is like a single Git commit. It 
contains what changed, and tells you the parent on which it was based.

But "git clone" does more: it pulls all the commits - all the MCD files 
- in one go.

frank



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