RFC: TortoiseBzr strategies

[Ville M. Vainio]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Talden <talden at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Another issue is that the other GUIs I've played with for bzr were
>  non-obvious to install and not familiar 'windows look & feel'
>  applications, making them less obvious in their usage.

qbzr is pretty obvious on both respects; I tried to get bzr-gtk
installed but gave up quickly.

>  different way of working.  Having simple right-clicks for update,
>  commit-here, status-here, diff, log is an improvement when the
>  navigation is in a tool they're familiar with.  Absolutely, just like

Luckily, all these tasks are pretty easy through a few registry keys +
qbzr. The only thing we lack are the explorer icon overlays, and I'm
not sure they are worth destabilizing & bloating the system, even from
political/manager appeal perspective.

Here's an example (.reg file) on how to add "IPython here" command to folders:

http://tinyurl.com/2shxvh

>  TortoiseSVN you're going to want to be able to show full working-tree
>  status and history browsing... If these are simply shortcuts to
>  launching into other bzr GUI solutions that is probably fine.

Indeed that's pretty fine, and easy to do as well.

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