the best way to use bazaar

[Stefan Monnier]

> I would like to use bazaar in the future for my research/publications. As
> these are often coauthored projects I am thinking of the setup described
> below. Could you please give you opinion. Especially on the merging,
> updating way.

> In the case of two authors I am planning to use three branches. One
> --no-trees which is kind of a trunk/main, and one for every author. All of
> them would be stored on my server to have a backup besides the local
> commits.

In my experience, one of the advantages of distributed version control
in such circumstances is that you don't have to have a central place
to which all contributors have write access.  Such a thing is always
problematic since it implies fiddling with access rights, which is
especially tricky when some of the contributors aren't part of
your organisation.

So I end up doing it this way:

- Every author has a public branch to which he has exclusive
  write access.  How he updates it is up to him.
- Every author regularly pulls from the other authors's public branches.

Typically, one of the authors is "the main author" and he's then
responsible to pull from everybody else, so the other authors can pull
from his branch without having to worry about the other
authors's branches.


        Stefan