On 22 March 2012 17:17, Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
on Thu Mar 22 2012, Martin Geisler <mg-AT-aragost.com> wrote:
Julien Nitard <julien.nitard@m4tp.org> writes:
It seems that everybody has heard of this magic... but nobody has actually seen it, and nobody can remember where they read about it :)
I do, in case somebody is interested. It's in the introduction to Mercurial wrote by Joel Spolski.that was posted here not so long ago.
http://hginit.com/00.html paragraph "One more big conceptual difference".
Oh, yeah, that guide... :)
I'm afraid Joel didn't really know what he was talking about back when he wrote that piece.
+1
Wrt. git, the 'magic' certainly predates 'hg init'. For example, see the second answer at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1897585/how-does-git-handle-merging-code-... I think it dates back to early git development, when people were arguing about rename tracking. I think people might have read too much into things like: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/217 Or maybe got confused with the content tracking in 'git blame'. Or things just get distorted as they are repeated.