Re: [Gnu-arch-users] clean up tla help

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:42:54AM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    It looks like baz' UI changes tried to make things _look_ simpler:
> 
>      changes           -> status
>      changes --diffs   -> diff
>      tag -S            -> branch
>      star-merge        -> merge
>      tree-lint         -> lint
> 
>    Of these, the two first clearly aim at CVS/Svn-friendliness.
> 
> Branch and merge also aim at CVS/SVN friendliness, but more
> indirectly.
> 
> But yeah, that is kind it...  Nice list, and it shows really well how
> baz didn't do anything to improving the UI in any significant way,
> despite all the claims that it did. :-)

How hard did you look to find what the UI changes were?  They're *much* more
extensive than this simple list.  See e.g. http://wiki.gnuarch.org/BazaarVsTla,
which I don't think is exhaustive despite its length.

Personally, I found that commands such as "baz branch", "baz switch", and making
most commands (including those two and "get") accept URLs made baz much more,
nicer conflict tracking, annotate, and so on made it much more pleasant for me
to use than tla.  branch and switch in particular made a *huge* difference, I
found myself using them regularly as soon as they were introduced.

Perhaps those UI changes don't interest you, but to me, they were a significant
improvement.

-Andrew.