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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:38:59
Message-Id: 547A20B9.8080503@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ? by Alan Mackenzie
1 Alan Mackenzie:
2 > So that
3 > instead of conceptualising a "branch" (as you would do with Mercurial,
4 > Bazaar, Subversion, or even CVS), you need to think about "commits
5 > reachable from a certain head (excluding commits reachable from some
6 > other head)".
7
8 [snipping everything that is not technical]
9
10 How exactly is that a disadvantage? You are just complaining about the
11 way a concept is presented without saying what actual limitations that
12 implies (if any).
13
14 If you like mercurial better, use that. Speaking about "disadvantages"
15 however requires a bit more than "I like that way better".

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