On Sep 17 2015, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nikolaus Rath writes:
>
> > Hmm, that's odd. As far as I know, the difference between the hg and git
> > DAG model can be summarized like this:
> >
> > * In git, leaves of the DAG must be assigned a name. If they don't have
> > a name, they will be garbage collected.
>
> You can turn off automatic garbage collection. I usually do: it's
> very unusual that I create millions of objects, or even megabytes
> worth of objects, that I'm creating.
Okay... (I don't quite see why this matters here).
> > If they have a name, they are called a branch.
>
> Tags are also refs, the difference being that committing child of the
> tip of the current branch advances the branch pointer, while that
> won't happen with a tag.
Yeah, it's like that both in hg and git, so I'm not quite sure what
you're trying to say...
Best,
-Nikolaus
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