On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 12:41:57 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Jan Hudec wrote:
> > And what about Bazaar-NG and changesets? Will the merge in bazaar-ng store
> > just the collapsed patch (as arch/bazaar do) or the constituents and
> > a resolution (as git and mercurial do)?
> 
> When you merge a revision (let's call it 'A'), all available ancestors
> of A are also stored.  Note that in bzr,
> 
> If A is a descendant of your last commit (let's call it B), we'll simply
> mark A as the latest revision in your branch.  Otherwise, you'll have to
> commit the changes in your working tree.  That commit will produce a
> revision (let's call it 'C') with two ancestors: A and B.
> 
> This allows for convergence, since the person who created A can merge
> your changes, and since C is a descendant of A, which is the last commit
> in their branch, C will become their latest revision.

Thanks for the clarification.

So it behaves similarly to git and mercurial (and monotone), except mercurial
(but not git) will not insist on merging immediately.

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