Is bazaar suitable for my purpose?

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 11:44 +0100, Robin Haswell wrote:
> 
> 
> I would need the VCS to automatically bring *everything* under our
> root
> into version control when created, removed when deleted and to be able
> to
> notice when things have moved. Our programmers will only ever use FTP,
> the
> chance of me getting them to use anything else is less than zero. I
> would
> also like to be able to delete revisions after, saw, 2 weeks - to
> conserve
> space.

Adds - 'bzr add'
Deletes - handled automatically at the moment.
Moves - well, you'll get an add/delete pair, we don't have a heuristic
for moves at the moment.

> Also, how does bazaar cope when blobs are created, removed and
> deleted?

It versions them. Not that efficiently, but correctly.

> Do you think bazaar would be okay? Any advice would be much
> appreciated.

I think it would be fine.

Cheers,
Rob
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