John's Tidbits » annodex http://inodes.org Moo - Development, Trouble-shooting and Random thoughts... Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:15:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Bzr keeps easing my pain http://inodes.org/2009/04/03/bzr-keeps-easing-my-pain/ http://inodes.org/2009/04/03/bzr-keeps-easing-my-pain/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:38:51 +0000 johnf http://inodes.org/blog/?p=127 There has been a trend in the Annodex community lately to move towards using git rather than SVN for source code management. Now while I applaud the move to a DVCS, I hate having to use git. It is just extremely painful IMHO.

I just shouldn’t have to look up a man page or tutorial every time I want to use a tool. Something I don’t have to do with any of CSV, SVN, bzr or mecurial. Git may have some benefits under the hood but I think its user interface still has a long way to go. I can totally understand how git is the perfect tool for the kernel community but I just don’t think it makes a lot of sense for some other communities who have jumped on the badwagon.

The nice folks over in the bazaar community have found a way to ease my pain. Some of you may be familiar with the bzr-svn plugin written by Jelmer Vernooij. Well he has recently expanded on the work started by Rob Collins and now we have a working bzr-git.

johnf@zoot:~$ bzr branch git://git.xiph.org/liboggz.git
Branched 734 revision(s).
johnf@zoot:~$ cd liboggz.git/
johnf@zoot:~/liboggz.git$ bzr log -r -1
------------------------------------------------------------
revno: 734
git commit: ef3b0ebc1fdc299a09119df01fbd1c8867f90d8b
committer: Conrad Parker
timestamp: Wed 2009-04-01 00:59:36 +0000
message:
  Update the link to the theora spec
  Patch by Ralph Giles

Joy!!! Many thanks to the wonderful guys in the bazzar community for making my life so much easier. All we need now is bzr-hg and I’ll never have to leave my comfort zone :)

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