Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: git vs hg commit counts? | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:14:29 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 03:16 +0200, Marti Raudsepp wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote: > > We simplify a merge history by discarding one branch when the merge result > > matches one of the parents. Does "hg" know how to do that as well? > > 57 of the differing changesets are normal merges (probably what Junio explained) > 3 are duplicate changesets in hg, probably also related to that > 27 changesets are octopus merge fixups > > wrt octopus merges: in git, one merge commit can have an arbitrary > number of parents, but in hg a merge changeset always has 2 parents -- > so a octopus merge is represented as multiple distinct changesets.
Thanks.
For hg support in get_maintainers, it's probably simplest to ignore the delta in number of commits as "close enough".
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