From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262324AbVF2CkN (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:40:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261164AbVF2Cgm (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:36:42 -0400 Received: from waste.org ([216.27.176.166]:19363 "EHLO waste.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262233AbVF1XaK (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:30:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:29:51 -0700 From: Matt Mackall To: Sean Cc: Kyle Moffett , Petr Baudis , Christopher Li , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List , mercurial@selenic.com Subject: Re: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers Message-ID: <20050628232951.GW12006@waste.org> References: <20050624064101.GB14292@pasky.ji.cz> <20050624123819.GD9519@64m.dyndns.org> <20050628150027.GB1275@pasky.ji.cz> <20050628180157.GI12006@waste.org> <62CF578B-B9DF-4DEA-8BAD-041F357771FD@mac.com> <3886.10.10.10.24.1119991512.squirrel@linux1> <20050628221422.GT12006@waste.org> <3993.10.10.10.24.1119997389.squirrel@linux1> <20050628224946.GU12006@waste.org> <4846.10.10.10.24.1119999568.squirrel@linux1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4846.10.10.10.24.1119999568.squirrel@linux1> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 06:59:28PM -0400, Sean wrote: > Afterall, Mecurial just took the basic ideas from Linus' and adapted > them to a different back end. ??! Just for the record, Mercurial had working distributed merge before Git had any sort of merge at all. So it's hardly a case of me copying git. Linus and I both freely borrowed ideas from Monotone and others and thus there is some rough similarity between the two. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.