Bazaar for SVN-Bazaar-SVN development?
Hendy Irawan
gauldong at gmail.com
Tue Aug 14 06:41:17 BST 2007
James Blackwell wrote:
> Yes, that development style is well supported by Bazaar. It's one of the
> more common flows.
>
>
Thank you James,
Would you provide some insights about each step (bzr command) necessary
for the steps below?
Thank you.
One thing that I have realized is that Bazaar works one a whole
Subversion repository and cannot use a child folder inside a repository,
not that it's relevant to the problem.
>> Hi!
>>
>> What I am about to ask is related to SVK, but I'm not doing feature
>> comparisons here...
>>
>> What I am doing now is that if I want to do offline Subversion development,
>> this is what I do:
>>
>> 1. The Subversion repository is hosted remotely
>> 2. I created a local Subversion repository
>> 3. I create an SVK depot, which has two mirrors: the remote
>> Subversion, and the local Subversion
>> 4. I merge from remote to local Subversion repository, using SVK's help
>> 5. During development I use regular Subversion tools (subclipse,
>> netBeans, tortoise, anything)
>> 6. When I'm ready to push or pull changes I merge between remote &
>> local with the help of SVK
>>
>> That development workflow is to me, very practical and I really like it
>> now. The reason is it allows me to work with all Subversion tools, I don't
>> have to wait long times just to do a commit. And when it's time to take
>> coffee break, I'll sync/push/pull the repositories for good. :-)
>>
>> What I want to ask is, is that development workflow appropriate using
>> Bazaar?
>>
>> So, in my view, Bazaar can also be used as "middle-man" between two
>> Subversion repositories (remote & local). However I'm not sure if anybody
>> has done this before.. I would appreciate testimonials...
>>
>> In case anyone interested about my SVK workflow, feel free to contact me. I
>> might even write a blog post about it just for you. (SVK's typical workflow
>> uses only one mirror, and uses SVK tools and commands, not Subversion's; so
>> my approach is rather in the narrow market)
>>
>> (PS: I'm not an SVK developer nor evangelist, I'm just trying to find a
>> nice distributed development approach that makes it easier for all our team
>> members...)
>>
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Hendy Irawan
www.hendyirawan.com
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