[Gllug] Mercurial or Subversion for single user?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 05:09:30PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:44:08AM +0000, Nix wrote:
> > It adds *the actual file*, i.e. the *actual content* to the 'index'
> > (also known as the 'cache' or 'staging area', which is a sort of limbo
> > files go into before commit. Change the file after 'git add' then do a
> > 'git commit', and the thing you added, *without that change*, is what
> > gets committed, because what gets added is what's in the index, and the
> > index hasn't changed since you did a 'git add'.
> 
> Yup, the index is an odd and oddly great concept.  It does take a bit
> of getting used to, and is quite unlike any other VCS (AFAIK?)

Perforce (closed source) also had a pretty similar concept to this.

Regards,
Daniel
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