Bazaar as a client to existing Subversion repositories

[Russel Winder]

Ben,

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 17:10 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:

> Thanks for illustrating these points. I don't yet know what to think,
> but at least I am aware it's not as simple as I previously thought.

Workflows that involve a mix of technologies generally end up being more
complex that you want.

> > In this situation, I think Git is probably better simply because of
> > the different way it manages branches, revisions and changesets.
> 
> That's a sad statement. I would have expected that Bazaar, with its
> deliberate emphasis on abstracted back-ends, would be able to handle
> the situation *better* than Git.

The issue here is, I believe, that Git has branches in a repository
whereas Bazaar has branches as separate entities that can be held in a
shared repository if you want.  This means that the location of
information is crucially different between Git and Bazaar.  The upshot
is that rebasing in Git is a different sort of thing to rebasing in
Bazaar even though it is doing the same thing.  The renaming of
changesets/revisions can be handled as an internal matter with Git where
it is a very public thing in Bazaar.

> Not that I disbelieve you; I just feel like I've backed the wrong
> horse, somehow.

I can empathize with this -- at least for interaction with Subversion.
For general use I find Git to be overcomplicated, bitty and generally
incomprehensible.  Clearly I am not geek enough.
-- 
Russel.
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