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Re: Bzr's "confusion" between branches and repositories
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Bzr's "confusion" between branches and repositories |
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Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:47:24 +0100 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> Since you are saying this in quite a few of your blogs and articles,
> let's finish this once and for all: there is no confusion. Bazaar
> works on branches, period. Bazaar is deeply branch-centric, right
> down to the level of its DAG topology and the way it handles merges.
> A bzr repository is just a convenience for storing several related
> branches in a way that saves disk storage, that's all.
This is not true for most repositories. The branches are usually
connected together by having a common root. This is also the case of
the Emacs repository: *all* branches (except the old elpa branch) have a
single root in common.
Andreas.
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