bazaar

Pros and cons of different branching models in DVCS

The Big Three of distributed version control (Git, Bazaar, and Mercurial) each treat branching fairly differently. In Bazaar, for example, branches are separate repos (actually, divergent copies of the parent repo); on your file system, different branches live in different directories. In Git, on the other hand, you can have multiple bra...

How do I undo a bzr ignore?

I mistakenly did bzr ignore For some files that I don't want to ignore. How do I undo the ignore? ...

GUI for bazaar, equivalent of gitk

What is a maintained GUI for bzr, perhaps something like gitk for git? ...

How to make dependency in makefile so that target is built when bazaar revision changes?

I have a script that is designed to generate a config.h in the source tree, to be used by the code at compile-time. Information included in this includes the bazaar revision number. My project is based only on a Makefile. I would like to add config.h as a target to be built when the script to make config.h is changed or the bazaar revis...

Bazaar syntax to ignore directories matching a wildcard

I'm sure this is a dumb question, but what is the syntax to ignore my _Resharper.* directories with Bazaar? I've tried ignoring: \_Resharper*.* ./\_Resharper*.*, **/\_Resharper*.*, plus variations of those on the wildcards. No matter what I do, it continues to pick up the directory. ...

Parameter is incorrect proxy problem when using bazaar

I've been trying to configure bazaar so that it will be able to pass through our proxy. I've set the http proxy and https proxy environment variables but the proxy gives the following error: Unable to handle http code 502: Proxy Error (The parameter is incorrect.) I've tried looking over the net and it points to a problem with...

Using Bazaar to handle Website Versioning

I imagine this is a pretty basic question but I haven't been able to find an answer anywhere. I develop websites. In the past I've handled all the live files manually and it stinks, of course. I've been hoping Bazaar could add some power and organization to the way we work. Right now, I work with a local server on my laptop and want to...

How many people were involved in a project? Based on Revision Control System

How do you know how many developers were involved in a project using a Revision Control System? A friend of mine found this way to look up the answer in git log: git log | grep Author: | sort -u | cut –delimiter=” ” -f2 | sort -u | wc -l Is there a straightforward way in git? How about other Revision Control System like Subversion...

How can a heavyweight checkout be changed to a lightweight checkout in Bazaar?

I have a shared repository like so: repo/ mainline featureA featureB I like to do all my development in one place, so I do something like > cd /Development/workingArea > bzr checkout featureA ... > bzr commit -m "Worked on featureA" > bzr switch featureB Over time, I've modified my feature branches to be treeless branches, as...

Bazaar + CruiseControl.Net

I want to setup CruiseControl.Net at my company. We currently have several .net solutions stored in a Bazaar repository and I want to use MSBuild to build each solution. This didn't seem too controversial, but I can't see an easy way of binding CruiseControl.Net to Bazaar. There seems to have been a plugin to do this at http://www.sorn....

Programmatically determining the Bazaar plugin directory

Is there a way to determine the Bazaar directory programmatically? If there is a bazaar command to determine the plugin directory, this would be the best solution. ...

Bazaar VCS under IronPython?

Has anyone successfully executed the source control system Bazaar in IronPython? ...

How to emulate 'git stash' in fossil, bzr?

Is it possible to emulate the behavior of 'git stash' when using fossil/bzr? Basically I'm interested in handling the following workflow: at some point the source code tree has state X, it is commited I proceed to writing new code, I write it for a while and I see the opportunity of a refactoring I can't commit at this point, because ...

Is there a way to make Nautilus move files under version control using the VCS's move command?

For example, say I moved a file from /project/file.cs to /project/subdir/file.cs. It would be nice if nautilus automatically converted this to bzr mv /project/file.cs /project/subdir/file.cs. Is it possible to set this up? It would also be nice if I was warned when doing a plain old mv on version controlled files, but I suppose that's a...

Bazaar (bzr) predefined locations

Bazaar has a Launchpad pseudo-protocol (lp:) that able the user to operate in remote branchs without write full Launchpad location, I'm searching a way to create my own pseudo-protocols in a way like this (similar to GIT): bzr remote my sftp://[email protected]/home/myuser/myrepo/ bzr push my:mybranch bzr push my:otherbranch bzr push ...

bzr - create tgz file containing full repository

I'm trying to backup my shared bzr repository. I have looked at bzr export hotcopy.tgz but it seems only to take a snapshot of the latest revision. Is there a command for doing backups, or do I have to full checkout into a tmp dir compress the tmp dir remove the tmp dir Or is there a better way to backup a bzr repository? ...

bzr init-repo and multiple projects

I'm having difficulties understanding bzr init-repo. I have 3 projects that I want to have in their own isolated repository, in subversion I would use svnadmin create three times to create them. Like this: svnadmin create MyProject svnadmin create MyHomepage svnadmin create MyDocuments The above would give 3 isolated subversion repos...

bzr checkout vs. bzr get

I wonder what the difference is between bzr checkout ./MyProject MyProject.dev # later followed by a cd MyProject.dev bzr pull ../MyProject and bzr get ./MyProject MyProject.dev # later followed by cd MyProject.dev bzr pull As far I can tell the only difference is: bzr get sets the pull location. bzr checkout doesn't set the pull...

I'm working on a project, and I want to see how it ran in its last revision. How do I do it without losing my changes?

Specifically, I'm using bzr, but tips for any VCS are welcome. ...

How can I delete unversioned files in Bazaar?

How can I remove all unversioned files from a Bazaar workspace? I'm looking to do the equivalent of hg purge --all or git clean -fd. ...