Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: git vs hg commit counts? | From | Jakub Narebski <> | Date | Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:14:43 -0700 (PDT) |
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Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> writes:
> I'm comparing linux-kernel git vs hg repositories. > > While testing some changes to scripts/get_maintainer.pl, > I noticed that git and hg have different commit counts > for the same files. > > For instance: > > $ git log --since=1-year-ago -- MAINTAINERS | \ > grep -P "^commit [0-9a-f]{40,40}$" | wc -l > 514 > > $ hg log --template="commit {node}\n" --date -365 -- MAINTAINERS | \ > grep -P "^commit [0-9a-f]{40,40}$" | wc -l > 601 > > Anyone have any understanding why?
It *might* be caused by the fact that in Mercurial commit can have only up to two parents. This means that octopus merges (merge commits with more than two parents: there are a few of them in linux-kernel history) have to be represented as a set of two-parent merges.
-- Jakub Narebski
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1598759/git-and-mercurial-compare-and-contrast/1599930#1599930
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