Definitions =========== Buildbot uses some terms and concepts that have specific meanings. Repository ---------- See :ref:`Attr-Repository`. Project ------- See :ref:`Attr-Project`. Version Control Comparison -------------------------- Buildbot supports a number of version control systems, and they don't all agree on their terms. This table should help to disambiguate them. =========== =========== =========== =================== Name Change Revision Branches =========== =========== =========== =================== CVS patch [1] timestamp unnamed Subversion revision integer directories Git commit sha1 hash named refs Mercurial changeset sha1 hash different repos or (permanently) named commits Darcs ? none [2] different repos Bazaar ? ? ? Perforce ? ? ? BitKeeper changeset ? different repos =========== =========== =========== =================== * [1] note that CVS only tracks patches to individual files. Buildbot tries to recognize coordinated changes to multiple files by correlating change times. * [2] Darcs does not have a concise way of representing a particular revision of the source.