bazaar branch fails

[Tom Widmer]

Rahul Nabar wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:54 PM, John Arbash Meinel
> <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>>  In Bazaar, you branch at the "whole project" level, not at the per-file
>> level.
> 
> Ah! Thanks John!  That's what I suspected. So far I've been twisting
> Bazaar which is essentially (large?) project oriented to cater to my
> desire of individual file tracking and versioning. But it seems I can
> only drag it so far. (and so are most other VCS's)
> 
> This, for example is one place where I really need the capability of a
> per-file versioning system. Something that does not really "need" the
> concept of a project to work but will happily track and branch at
> individual file level. Essentially edits on each file are a "project"
> for my purposes. Is there any such VCS that people know of? Unless
> there are any other ideas how I can hack Bazaar to suit my
> intentions...........

Subversion supports this to some extent - it supports branching of any 
file or directory and doesn't treat the whole repository as special in 
this regard. To branch a file, you simply create a copy of it (svn cp), 
which can be in the same directory if you like, then you can merge 
changes into the main one with svn merge (which is difficult to use 
compared to bzr merge), or simply replace the main one with your 
development one.

Tom