[Python-Dev] PEP: Collecting information about git

[Nikolaus Rath]

On Sep 17 2015, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Nikolaus Rath writes:
>
>  > Hmm, that's odd. As far as I know, the difference between the hg and git
>  > DAG model can be summarized like this:
>  > 
>  >  * In git, leaves of the DAG must be assigned a name. If they don't have
>  >    a name, they will be garbage collected.
>
> You can turn off automatic garbage collection.  I usually do: it's
> very unusual that I create millions of objects, or even megabytes
> worth of objects, that I'm creating.

Okay... (I don't quite see why this matters here).


>  >    If they have a name, they are called a branch.
>
> Tags are also refs, the difference being that committing child of the
> tip of the current branch advances the branch pointer, while that
> won't happen with a tag.

Yeah, it's like that both in hg and git, so I'm not quite sure what
you're trying to say...


Best,
-Nikolaus

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