windows support

[John Arbash Meinel]

Brett Calcott wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> 
>> Brett Calcott wrote:

...

>> For now, the branches are at:
>> http://bzr.arbash-meinel.com/branches/bzr/win32/ and
>> http://bzr.arbash-meinel.com/branches/bzr/jam-integration/
>>
> 
> That is great. I'll branch off your stuff for now. I prefer to work with
> this rather than an executable.
> 
>>
>>> 2. Is there a faster way to get a branch that using http. Branching
>>>  takes an awful long time (> 1hr). I'm in Australia, if that makes
>>> a difference.
>>
>>
>>
>> All you have to do is copy the directory. So rsync/scp/etc works. If
>> you are trying to get bzr itself, you can download mainline with:
>>
>> rsync -av bazaar-ng.org::bazaar-ng/bzr/bzr.dev .
> 
> 
> Excellent. That is much faster. I used cwRsync, rather than the whole
> cygwin dist. This seems to work fine.

Yeah, cwRsync is just rsync + the cygwin dll.

> 
>>
>>> 3. How do I simply check out an older version of a file(s) from a
>>> local branch?
>>
>>
>>
>> What are you actually wanting to do? Are you wanting to see what has
>> changed, back up to an old version, what?
>>
> Mainly, as you suspected, wanting to diff the previous versions.
> 
>> 'bzr cat -r -1 filename' will output the old version a file to
>> stdout. You can redirect this to a file if you want.
>>
>> 'bzr revert -r -1 filename' will revert just filename to the previous
>>  revision. (You can always do 'bzr revert -r 125' to revert the
>> entire tree to revision 125 if you want).
> 
> 
> I didn't see those. The command line is not currently fully
> self-documenting then. bzr help doesn't reveal 'cat' or 'revert'. (At
> least in 0.6.2). I'll have a play with these.

'bzr revert' should be in the main help, if it isn't you can submit a
bug here:
https://launchpad.net/products/bzr/+bugs

bzr cat may be a second tier command, only available from "bzr help
commands".

> 
>>
>> 'bzr diff -r -1 filename' will show you just the changes for the
>> given file.
>>
>> There is a vimdiff plugin originally written by Martin, which I
>> extended with the --revision option
>> http://bzr.arbash-meinel.com/plugins/vimdiff/
> 
> 
> I use vim. So that is good for me. It might need some tuning for
> windows. I'll have a look.
> 
>>
>>
>> I hope this helps
> 
> 
> It helps a lot. Thanks for your quick response. I hope I can contribute
> something to the project.
> 

Good to have you here.
John
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