bazaar branch fails

[Martin Pool]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Rahul Nabar <rpnabar at gmail.com> 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...........

If you mean hack Bazaar in the sense of modifying Bazaar itself to
support this - it might be possible, people have talked about this a
little before, but it would take some more discussion to work out the
right way to do it.

As far as how to use Bazaar to do this now: I'd suggest making branch
directories for each individually-versioned file or set of files, then
symlinking them into another directory.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>