Talk:Bzr Intro

Some questions I have are:

• When should I use bzr over a centralized VC like Subversion?
• How do you start to use bzr on a project?
• Can bzr be used along side another VC (e.g. SVN for main repo but keep your personal branches in bzr)?
• What is the standard workflow in bzr (e.g. svn => update, status, commit)?
• What tools can be used to share your code?
• What do you *love* about bzr?
• What do you *hate* about bzr?

--Edavis 11:52, 30 September 2007 (PDT)

   * What tools can be used to share your code?

typically, sftp access to a web server. but ftp, sftp, http, or file URLs all work.

there is a plugin for trac to use bzr: http://packages.debian.org/trac-bzr

   * What do you *love* about bzr?

• merging support is very good
• publishing a branch is as simple as pushing to a web-accesible space
• uncommit: habit of commit freely, but only push what's good
• offline editing

   * What do you *hate* about bzr? 

the software is under rapid development, and backwards compatibility is not always stellar (i.e. checking out a branch created with a newer version of bzr may not work). versions 0.16+ are considerably more stable as far as format changes.

--Vagrant 2007-10-01