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Re: bzr repository ready?
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Jason Earl |
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Re: bzr repository ready? |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:30:46 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
> Jason Earl writes:
>
> > On the one hand you chide me for adding a slight change to the bzr
>
> I did not. I criticized you for adding a pile of vocabulary without
> explaining it.
I have re-read my responses and you are absolutely correct. Heck, even
if you weren't correct I should have been more civil. Please forgive
me.
> > If the criticism of bzr is that it doesn't have colocated branches
> > requiring several instances of "make bootstrap" then here is how
> > you solve it.
>
> No. It's a *warning* that dVCS fans, of whom there are several on
> this list, often *will* recommend a naive and inefficient "bzr branch"
> as the first step in any workflow. Óscar Fuentes in a related
> subthread admits to doing exactly in a different context (cloning a
> remote branch vs remote file copying a tarball), and the wiki still
> does so. That is a bad idea for many tasks, which really should use
> alternative workflows. But they *are* alternative workflows, and are
> *not* explained on the Emacs wiki.
That makes sense. I have certainly experimented with enough
pathologically bad bzr workflows. Using the right workflow can make a
big difference, and I would be the first to admit that the "proper" bzr
workflow might not be readily apparent.
> The rest of your post is very much what I was looking for. Well done!
You are welcome.
> One quibble:
Fah, like I said, I re-read my posts. You are being generous here.
> > On the other hand if you really like git's colocated branches bzr
> > can be easily set up to approximate them.
>
> No, it is *not* easy, unless you use a definition of "approximate"
> that will be unacceptable to many git fans. Agreed, the "lightweight
> checkout plus bzr switch" workflow has similar efficiency properties
> for most tasks, but there's a lot more to the git model than just fast
> "git checkout".
I think it goes without saying that git fans are unlikely to ever think
too highly of bzr. Once you have learned how to use git effectively
everything else is a step down. The bzr or hg devs probably have some
arguments to the contrary, but generally speaking git's weakness is that
it is hard to learn to use.
Personally, I think that git's insistence on colocated branches is a
large part of what makes it hard to learn. Learning to juggle branches
in git certainly confused the heck out of me. It is somewhat ironic to
me that I have come full-circle and I now tend to do my work in a
lightweight checkout that I point at the right branch with bzr switch.
In at least one project that workspace isn't even inside the repository.
My workspace is at ~/project-name and my repository full of branches is
tucked away at ~/repos/project-name/branches .
A fancy aliasing plugin for bzr that automatically mapped commands like
"bzr switch foo" to "bzr switch $HIDDENREPO/project-name/foo" would get
me even closer to approximating git's colocated branches. The truly
scary thing (to me anyway) is that I now can see *why* git has the UI
that it does.
Now that I have learned to use bzr, I could probably wrap my head around
git :).
Jason
- Re: bzr repository ready?, (continued)
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/22
- Re: bzr repository ready?, tomas, 2009/11/22
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Jason Earl, 2009/11/22
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/11/22
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Jason Earl, 2009/11/22
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/23
- Re: bzr repository ready?,
Jason Earl <=
- Re: bzr repository ready?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2009/11/23
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Karl Fogel, 2009/11/23
- Re: bzr repository ready?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2009/11/23
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/23
- Re: bzr repository ready?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2009/11/24
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/25
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/20
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Lennart Borgman, 2009/11/20
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/11/21
- Re: bzr repository ready?, Karl Fogel, 2009/11/22