Another thing I don't like (or maybe don't understand) in git is the existence of "garbage collection". On the contrary, a basic tenet of Mercurial philosophy is that history is frozen in stone, so if I let a clone stand without updating it for, let's say, a year, and then run "hg pull -u" or "hg fetch", Mercurial will be able to continue from where I left off and (barring timeouts and brownouts) get the clone back up to date. Once I did that with git, and when I came back after a year my clone was so hopelessly out of date that git didn't know how to update it: the only way I found to make it up to date again was to delete the clone and make a new one.
Best regards, Tony. P.S. Happily for me, Christian understands both of them (or ;-) seems to) so I enjoy the luxury of a Mercurial mirror to Bram's git repository. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
