From: Jiri B. <ji...@ba...> - 2006-11-17 05:49:16
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Hello, Jiri: > >> The main difference is that rather than having one central repository, > >> each developer has one (or more), called branches. Basically every > >> working directory is its own branch. Mario: > > So this means that we each get a local repository, and we synch between > > each other's repositories? No central repository? That's right. > > That's interesting. Juan: > It is an interesting concept. I think we can also have a central > repository but it is optional. Is nice to have the choice. The problem > with not having a central repository is that the developers could go in > their own paths and end up with a different system each. Well, as long as we keep talking to each other, that's not a problem - we'll just keep pulling/merging each other's stuff in. If we ever stop talking to each other, bzr will support that too :-) > The other problem is that in order to merge branches one must have a way of > exposing the repository, Well, we all have our webpages anyway, so that shouldn't be a big problem? > a central repository would alleviate this by exposing the repository. Jiri > please correct me in this last point if this is not the case. Somebody would have to run the central repository. > > OK. Is this in effect already, or still in the planning stage? > I guess all that is needed is to give it the green light Yup. > and then stop committing to CVS while someone (I guess Jiri) ports the CVS > repository to BZR. It is very important to stop committing to CVS because > once we start using Bazaar the commits to CVS will be forgotten or left > unsync. Yes (it may be possible to do the sync several times, though). > An explanation on the web will be also required for the newcomers. Probably based on what I posted; it'd replace the CVS instructions. > Before changing why don't we do a test drive. A simple test file and > directory structure to find out how we will checkout and commit code > with this new tool. OK, here's one: http://www.baum.com.au/~jiri/mat/test/ It only has one file in it, README. Not very imaginative, I guess... Jiri -- Jiri Baum <ji...@ba...> http://www.baum.com.au/~jiri |