Re: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 05:00:27PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > Mercurial's undo is taking a snapshot of all the changed file's repo file length
> > at every commit or pull.  It just truncate the file to original size and undo 
> > is done.
> 
> "Trunactes"? That sounds very wrong... you mean replace with old
> version? Anyway, what if the file has same length? It just doesn't make
> much sense to me.

Everything in Mercurial is an append-only log. A transaction journal
records the original length of each log so that it can be restored on
failure.

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