Re: git vs hg commit counts?

From: Junio C Hamano
Date: Mon Oct 26 2009 - 20:18:52 EST


Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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?

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?

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