[bt-devel] bazaar repo

[Eeli Kaikkonen]

Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> After some initial difficulties the bazaar repo is up and running. Test 
> from the bottom of your heart.

After some more difficulties the bazaar repo is still there but in a 
different shape. I don't know how to create a wanted directory/branch 
structure. And I succeeded to create an unversioned directory which can 
be removed in no way...

Then another thing. The svn repo has layout:
sfproject
	- tags
	- branches
	- trunk
		- project1
		- project2

It's not very reasonable for other vcs's because it may not be possible 
to checkout a subdirectory only. Website and c++ source should be in 
different projects, but it's not currently possible with sf repos. If we 
want to start using a dvcs it means that only the bibletime subproject 
is in the repo, the rest will remain in svn until sf lets create several 
repos.

I don't still know if it's possible or reasonable to keep two different 
vcs systems up to date. My personal opinion is that bzr or hg could just 
replace svn (except the hg win64 issue). Git is out of question because 
we need good cross-platform support. Bzr supports an svn-like workflow 
out of the box so it shouldn't be too hard to learn. I have struggled 
with both hg and bzr but it's mostly because I try to convert repos and 
do other non-basic things.

Anyways, we don't of course make any sudden moves. Svn will stay for 
shorter or longer time, meanwhile we can keep testing others.

I give one documentation link for starters: 
http://bazaar-vcs.org/Workflows. It's short and easy to read and gives 
some clues why decentralized systems are better than strictly 
centralized. I have used git-svn for a while and have been quite happy. 
I don't want to go back to pure svn anymore. Bzr would probably have the 
  same advantages. It can be even used directly as a local svn 
replacement with existing svn repositories, though I don't know why 
someone would want to use a dvcs that way because it looses some 
important benefits (commit, log etc. locally without network, and local 
feature branches, which both I have used with git-svn).

Maybe I'll try next bzr-svn myself to learn bzr a bit more.

--Eeli Kaikkonen