migrating from CVS

[Martin Pool]

On  6 Mar 2006, Jos Backus <jos at catnook.com> wrote:
> OK. Sounds like Subversion requires more namespace management than Bazaar-NG
> as a result of its design.

It's not really "more", just different.  In both systems you need to
keep track of various branches, which should be used by whom, what
they're intended to hold, when they should be reviewed or merged, etc.

The main difference is that in bzr the branches are literally
directories within the regular filesystem and/or url space, so can be
discovered, listed, access-controlled, renamed or deleted by regular
tools.  In svn they only exist within the svn database and you need to use
special commands to see them.

bzr also gives you a hand in managing those branches because it tracks
more metadata about their relationships: e.g. with 'bzr missing' you can
see what is not yet merged/pulled; with 'bzr log' you can see indented
messages for revisions that were merged in.

Cheers
-- 
Martin