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I don't think he was talking about performance. I think he meant lightweight in the sense that a branch (in git) is just a pointer to a commit. It's conceptual
by wtetzner 13y ago
I don't think he was talking about performance. I think he meant lightweight in the sense that a branch (in git) is just a pointer to a commit.
It's conceptually lightweight.
- JoshTriplett 13y agoBoth: it's conceptually lightweight, and because of that "pointer to a commit" structure it's also effectively free to create and move around branches.
- k_bx 13y agoWhy is mercurial branches ineffective to move around branches? If I'm not mistaken, if you want to move commits from one branch to another you do absolutely the same rebase.
- k_bx 13y agoWell, mercurial branch is just a record in list of branches, so is it then also "conceptually lightweight"? What is "conceptually lightweight" anyway?