Comments on: Renaming is the killer app of distributed version control

By: DSCM: Mercurial or Bazaar? « steshaw

DSCM: Mercurial or Bazaar? « steshaw — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:33:40 +0000

[...] I figured that the Mercurial team had solved the rename problem by now. However, I just noticed Mark Shuttleworth’s entry on the topic. It seems Bazaar could still be in the running as the DSCM of choice. However with Sun [...]

By: Bazaar or Git? Moving away from Subversion. « Kash Farooq’s blog

Bazaar or Git? Moving away from Subversion. « Kash Farooq’s blog — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:42:21 +0000

[...] going to try Git. I downloaded binaries, documentation and guides. But then I read this article: Renaming is the killer app of distributed version control. And I agree, renaming is really, really important. We rename files all the time. We [...]

By: Why is Git so Fast? - News ums Netz

Why is Git so Fast? - News ums Netz — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:45:37 +0000

[...] maybe Git’s shortcut for handling renames is faster than doing them more correctly like Bazaar [...]

By: DVCS Try Out. Bazaar, Mercurial and Git | Moomalade

DVCS Try Out. Bazaar, Mercurial and Git | Moomalade — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:33:49 +0000

[...] the only one of the three to support directories are first class object and handle rename in a very robust way, which is great. By any standard it’s much slower than Mercurial and Git, but whether this is [...]

By: Versioning e renaming » JUG Brescia

Versioning e renaming » JUG Brescia — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:44:46 +0000

[...] Girovagando in rete alla ricerca di informazioni ed articoli in proposito, mi sono imbattuto in queste considerazioni relative al supporto che i diversi sistemi di versioning offrono al renaming dei file. [...]

By: wolf++ » Bazaar TuneWiz Launchpad

wolf++ » Bazaar TuneWiz Launchpad — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:14:19 +0000

[...] is not the P2P type repository, it’s that branching and merging are first class citizens (See Renaming is the killer app of distributed version control ). The three big players I’ve been watching are Git, Hg (Mercurial), and Bazaar. All of [...]

By: On choosing Bazaar for DVCS « Handwaving

On choosing Bazaar for DVCS « Handwaving — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:06:02 +0000

[...] performance because my projects are small. The feature that broke the tie between the other two is renaming. Bazaar treats renaming as a primitive operation, whereas Mercurial treats it as a copy and delete. [...]

By: code, code.back, code.back2… - A better way with Revison Control (svn/git/bzr/hg tutorials & comparisons) « ☠ I could not think of a blog title ☠

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:26:08 +0000

[...] improvements in their changelogs. I haven’t found any videos on Bazaar but there have been three, shuttleworth, posts recently on bazaar as a lossless [...]

By: Mark Shuttleworth on renaming and merging — Version Control Blog — branching and merging, Ideas, SCM features and concepts, Bazaar/bzr,

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:37:24 +0000

[...] “Renaming is the killer app of distributed version control”; [...]

By: Hendy Irawan

Hendy Irawan — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:27:16 +0000

Come on Bazaar, speed up! I’m behind you…