Junio C Hamano wrote: > Matthew L Foster <mfoster167@yahoo.com> writes: > >>> PS Nit: Git doesn't work with changesets, it works with snapshots, >>> building a directed graph of snapshots. Maybe that is the source of your >>> confusion >> It's true I don't know much about git, what is the difference >> between a changeset and a snapshot? Are you saying timestamps >> should be tracked separately or tracked by an scm system built >> on top of git? Does/should git care about the when of a >> snapshot? > > I do not know what Jeff meant by snapshot vs changeset, so I > would not comment on this part. > Me neither, but I've seen this distinction before on the mailing-list. To my mind, a changeset is the patch that brings some form of data from one state (snapshot) to another. In this respect, git is certainly both snapshot- and changeset-based. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Wed Sep 27 21:24:32 2006
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