Newbie questions

[Lachlan Patrick]

Martin Pool wrote:
> On 11 Oct 2006, Lachlan Patrick <loki at research.canon.com.au> wrote:
>> Lachlan Patrick wrote:
>>> Hi, sorry, I have some newbie questions:
>>>
>>> 1. bzr whoami doesn't need real email addresses does it?
>>>    I mean, it doesn't actually send emails, it's just a
>>>    globally unique identifier right?

OK, thanks for all the replies. I got confused between whoami and push
because whoami seemed to require an email address, and something similar
to that email address was turning up during sftp. But when I
experimented I found the whoami address to be unrelated to the sftp
address. I'm puzzled where that sftp address came from (but I'll look
for .ssh/config now that someone's mentioned that).

>>> 2. bzr remove filename gives me an error saying the file
>>>    isn't versioned. I had previously typed bzr init, and
>>>    all the files in all subdirectories got added, then I
>>>    typed bzr commit -m "version 1", which worked, so why
>>>    can't I now remove one of those files?
>> Sorry, my mistake, item 2 isn't an error, ignore that one.
>>
>> I'm trying to put several versions of software (stored in tarballs) into
>> a bzr repository in order. I'm trying to replicate what changed in each
>> version so that the bzr repository stores an accurate history, but I
>> just got some things wrong. I guess in general I should add new files
>> then remove old ones, but actually I want each new version to be
>> atomically different.
> 
> If you just unpack each one and then commit it this should be fine.  The
> only thing is that you'll need to make sure files deleted from one
> tarball to the next are deleted in the working directory.  There are
> various ways you could do it, but one of the simplest is probably to
> just delete everything but the .bzr directory after each commit, then
> unpack the next.

OK, it didn't end up being too much work. I had to remember that some
files were moved into another folder, and simulate that with bzr mv, but
other than that bzr unknowns, bzr add, bzr commit was the ticket.

Can I just say, bzr is *fast*. I like.

Loki