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[Matthieu Moy]

Sean <seanlkml at sympatico.ca> writes:

>> Yes, but you will have to do a merge at some point, right ? While I'm
>> keeping a purely linear history (not that it is good in the general
>> case, but for "projects" on which I'm the only developper, I find it
>> good. For example, my ${HOME}/etc/).
>
> Well if you're committing changes from multiple different machines,
> how is that different from having say 3 different developers committing
> changes to the central repo?

The workflow is different.

If I commit broken changes on a repository shared by multiple
developers, they'll insult me, and they'll be right. While I find
nothing wrong in commiting broken changes to my ${HOME}/etc/ when
leaving the office, and fix it from home.

> How does bzr avoid a merge when you're pushing changes from 3
> separate machines?

Err, the same way people have been doing for years ;-). If you don't
have local commits, "bzr update" will work in the same way as "cvs
update", it keeps your local changes, without recording history. Like
"git pull" does if you have uncommited changes I think.

-- 
Matthieu