Bzr and Meld on Linux

[Colin D Bennett]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:43:38 -0400
"Enrique Ramirez" <enriquein at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm new to Bazaar and I _really really_ like it so far. The current
> state of GUI tools (even though I realize it's not part of the main
> development and usually comes from 3rd parties for most SCM systems)
> has been a bit frustrating for me and some soon-to-be-convert
> coworkers of mine. After trying olive in both windows and linux, we
> we're contemplating having to use CLI for a while until this product
> and tbzr matured a bit. This was mostly ok with us, except for the
> lack of a visual diff tool and, well being SVN users we were hugely
> spoiled by the filesystem icon overlays provided bt tsvn.
> 
> That being said, we ran into Meld (http://meld.sourceforge.net/) by
> pure coincidence. Meld handled pretty ok most of our basic bzr needs
> and were instantly relieved. I'm not sure how it will deal with
> branching I was wondering if it would be considered a good thing to
> mention it in the website as a GUI option for Linux users. Being a
> complete (and clueless) newcomer to bzr has proven to be a bit uphill
> for us, especially after being so incredibly spoiled by tsvn, I'm sure
> people with the same GUI background that I have could benefit from
> this.

Hi Enrique,

I have to agree with Nicholas, that QBzr is really an excellent GUI for
bzr, at least for the important tasks of history review/diff ("bzr
qlog", "bzr qdiff", which a *really* nice) and a graphical checkin
("bzr qci"), etc.

To find out all the qbzr plugin commands, run 

  $ bzr help plugins/qbzr
  QBzr - Qt-based frontend for Bazaar

  Provided commands:
      qannotate, qbrowse, qcat, qcommit, qconfig, qdiff, qlog, qpull,
      qpush.

Personally, I use both bzr-gtk (especially for 'gci', since sometimes I
just want to be able to see the whole diff in one place while I compose
my commit message) and qbzr.  I hope they grow in capability in the
future, particularly so I can see the relationships between branches in
a high level way, though I don't think anyone is work on this that I
know of.

I also use Meld; it's a great diff tool.  KDiff3 is OK, but meld is
usually easier to use.  It depends on the situation, so I like to have
many tools available.

I hope you have great success using bzr!

Regards,
Colin
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