On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 11:17 +0100, John Carr wrote: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:14:50AM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 08:35 +0200, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: > > > > I was just wondering why many GNOME developers are using git mirror > > > > and for example not a bzr mirror? If I for example read > > > > http://live.gnome.org/DistributedSCM I have the feeling that bzr would > > > > also be a very good fit. However I haven't seen any gnome.org project > > > > in a bzr mirror while of many projects there exists git mirrors. > > > > I've been talking with Elijah to determine what is needed in a DSCM. > > Basically, Bzr should be enhanced/improved to have branches in one > > checkout directory. For some reason this is important (for real > > developers.. not me:). E.g. DSCM will likely mean lots of small > > (private) branches; loads more than with a central system. > > Like this? > > http://bazaar-vcs.org/SharedRepositoryTutorial > No. This is multiple branches sharing a single repository (which is usually elsewhere), a way to save on disk space. What is generally wanted is the ability for a bzr working tree to be trivially switched between the different branches available in the bzr repository (which is nominally in the same .bzr directory). $ bzr branch lp:wibble/trunk wibble $ cd wibble $ bzr branches **master bug1234 bug5678 $ bzr switch bug1234 (At least, that's what I understand) Scott -- Scott James Remnant scott canonical com
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