Re: [Lib2geom-devel] Bazaar advice

[Nathan H. <nj...@nj...>]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 09:28:38PM +0100, Johan Engelen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> A recent commit to lib2geom compressed almost all commits since februari 
> into one. Very annoying, although I know you can find out what those 
> individual commits were with some more clicking.

I'm truly sorry.  I was baffled as to why my commit was back so far
(I've been watching krys' steady commit and got jealous :)
yet it seemed to have all the new code features.

> These mistakes don't surprise me; I am scared of the bzr tool that does 
> things I do not understand.

Me too.  I complained to martin about this last time I saw him.  I'm
tempted to switch to git if possible, because it is equally hairy, but
for me at least I've used it a lot more and generally know how to fix
things hen they get broken.  We do not appear to have such expertise
for bzr over the whole inkscape community.  I've not enjoyed using bzr
and personally feel it has been a backward step for development
compared to svn(!).

> So to make people aware of the dangers of bzr, I'd like to give advice 
> to simple folks like me:
> 
> *************************************
> I strongly advise you to not work in branches and merge it into trunk, 
> and stay away from any other so-called convenient advanced functionality 
> of bzr, like push-pull-whatever. Simply use it in 'svn mode'.
> http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Working_with_Bazaar#Using_a_centralized_.28SVN-like.29_workflow
> *************************************
> 
> If you have fully understood how bzr works, perhaps you can try to use 
> the extra functionality. In that case, learn how to foul up the history 
> (like rev2000 in lib2geom) so you don't type in such commands.

Oops?

njh

> 
> Thank you very very very much,
>    Johan
> 
> (PS. no hard feelings to the committer of course! I blame the tool that 
> allows these things to happen)
> 
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