New BZR with tags, and cooperation without
distributed vcs
2007-05-01-Tuesday | Computer
(first blog in a looooong time)
In the latest and greatest BZR you can have tags. It's really neat and one of the features I've been waiting for. I added (with the help of other bzr people, mostly Alexander) the functionality to see the tags in the log output. That's pretty much the only thing I've done in the opensource world for almost a year
Now I just want better cherry-pick support and bzr would be the ultimate revision control system
Regarding distributes vcs'.
Since I've moved to Mac, I've started using Textmate as my main text editor. It really can do a lot of great things, and I'm very happy with it. Even if it's not opensource. Textmate has many "bundles" and they are opensourced and contained in a svn repository. Since Textmate is very popular and people want it for other platforms, multiple clones has popped up. One for windows is e-texteditor, that's even trying to stay bundle-compatible with textmate (which they have to use cygwin for). However, they have now started a e-plugins google code project/repository. Here they state that they want to contribute things back to Textmate.
This is all good except that they now have two separate svn repositories, where they get no help in merging back and fourth between each other. If they had chosen a distributed vcs instead, this would be a none-issue. To get the most compatibility between Mac and Windows, bzr is probably the best choise.
Well, they are just going to have to have fun in trying to get this to work. It is doable, but you spend much time working with merging, instead of coding.
In the latest and greatest BZR you can have tags. It's really neat and one of the features I've been waiting for. I added (with the help of other bzr people, mostly Alexander) the functionality to see the tags in the log output. That's pretty much the only thing I've done in the opensource world for almost a year
Now I just want better cherry-pick support and bzr would be the ultimate revision control system
Regarding distributes vcs'.
Since I've moved to Mac, I've started using Textmate as my main text editor. It really can do a lot of great things, and I'm very happy with it. Even if it's not opensource. Textmate has many "bundles" and they are opensourced and contained in a svn repository. Since Textmate is very popular and people want it for other platforms, multiple clones has popped up. One for windows is e-texteditor, that's even trying to stay bundle-compatible with textmate (which they have to use cygwin for). However, they have now started a e-plugins google code project/repository. Here they state that they want to contribute things back to Textmate.
This is all good except that they now have two separate svn repositories, where they get no help in merging back and fourth between each other. If they had chosen a distributed vcs instead, this would be a none-issue. To get the most compatibility between Mac and Windows, bzr is probably the best choise.
Well, they are just going to have to have fun in trying to get this to work. It is doable, but you spend much time working with merging, instead of coding.
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