Subject: Re: Mercurial's only true "plugin" extension: inotify... and can it be done in Git?

From: Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:20:41 +0100

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>> Mercurial extension | git equivalent (or proposal)
>>> --------------------+------------------------------------
>>> bisect              | git-bisect
>>>
>>> Footnotes:
>>> ==========
>>> (*) Directly inspired by git feature
>>> (!) No direct equivalent, would be quite a work to add
>>> (!!!) No equivalent, don't know if possible
>>>
>> IIRC, bisect should have a star here (or five, as it's a killer feature).
> 
> Heh, why do we even care?  It is a norm that good features cross pollinate
> across systems and who borrows ideas from whom does not really matter
> much.

Because companies such as the one where I work pride themselves in using
the most innovative tools. Clearly, git is the most innovative tool here,
since its developers managed to cook up something so immensely useful as
"git bisect" (which by the way is well-nigh single-handedly responsible
for reducing our average bugreport-to-fix time from 4 days to 6 hours).

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